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Goethe Yearbook 26 (Hardcover)
Patricia Anne Simpson, Birgit Tautz; Contributions by Bryan Klausmeyer, Christian P. Weber, Christopher Chiasson, …
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This year's volume is highlighted by a special section on Goethe's
narrative events in addition to a range of other articles from
emerging and established scholars. The Goethe Yearbook is a
publication of the Goethe Society of North America, encouraging
North American Goethe scholarship by publishing original
English-language contributions to the understanding of Goethe and
other authors of the Goethezeit while also welcoming contributions
from scholars around the world. Volume 26 features a special
section on Goethe's narrative events, with contributions on
"Narrating (against) the Uncanny: Goethe's "Ballade" vs. Hoffmann's
Der Sandmann," "The Absence of Events in Die Wahlverwandtschaften,"
and "Countering Catastrophe: Goethe's Novelle in the Aftershock of
Kleist." This issue also showcases work presented atthe 2017 Atkins
Goethe Conference (Re-Orientations around Goethe), including
contributions by Eva Geulen on morphology and W. Daniel Wilson on
the Goethe Society of Weimar in the Third Reich. In addition there
are articles by emerging and established scholars on Klopstock,
Schiller, Goethe and objects, dark green ecology, and texts of the
Goethezeit and beyond through the lens of world literature. Book
reviews conclude the volume. Contributors: Lisa Marie Anderson,
Thomas O. Beebee, Fritz Breithaupt, Christopher Chiasson, Patrick
Fortmann, Sean Franzel, Eva Geulen, Willi Goetschel, Stefan Hajduk,
Samuel Heidepriem, Bryan Klausmeyer, Lea Pao, Elizabeth Powers,
James Shinkle, Heather I. Sullivan, Christian P. Weber, W. Daniel
Wilson, Karin A. Wurst. The Goethe Yearbook is edited, beginning
with this volume, by Patricia Anne Simpson, Professor of German and
Chairperson of Modern Languages at the University of
Nebraska-Lincoln, and Birgit Tautz, George Taylor Files Professor
of Modern Languages at Bowdoin College. Book Review Editor is Sean
Franzel, Associate Professor of German at the University
ofMissouri-Columbia.
Forest ecosystems cover around 31% of the total land area of the
Earth. They represent important biodiversity and genetic resources;
provide material goods, including fuelwood, commercial timber,
soils, medicinal plants and others; as well as environmental
services, such as cleaning air and water, sequestering carbon and
maintaining biodiversity. Old-growth forests are those developed
during long periods without relevant human impact and with
distinctive features in terms of forest continuity, structural
heterogeneity, large volumes of standing and fallen deadwood,
decaying ancient and veteran trees, and large diameter live trees.
These characteristics ensure the growth and dispersal of
forest-dwelling species, playing thus a vital role in the
conservation of biodiversity. This book discusses the ecology,
habitat and conservation of old-growth forests, as well as
coniferous forests.
The application of Bayesian Networks (BN) or Dynamic Bayesian
Networks (DBN) in dependability and risk analysis is a recent
development. A large number of scientific publications show the
interest in the applications of BN in this field. Unfortunately,
this modeling formalism is not fully accepted in the industry. The
questions facing today's engineers are focused on the validity of
BN models and the resulting estimates. Indeed, a BN model is not
based on a specific semantic in dependability but offers a general
formalism for modeling problems under uncertainty. This book
explains the principles of knowledge structuration to ensure a
valid BN and DBN model and illustrate the flexibility and
efficiency of these representations in dependability, risk analysis
and control of multi-state systems and dynamic systems. Across five
chapters, the authors present several modeling methods and
industrial applications are referenced for illustration in real
industrial contexts.
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Dennis P Weber, Karen Dennis, Sue Maxey
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The field of phase transfer catalysis is a tribute to the chemists
involved in process development research. Phase transfer catalysis
is a solution to numerous cost and yield problems encountered
regularly in industrial laboratories. In fact, much of the early
work in this area was conducted by industrial chemists although the
work was not labelled phase transfer catalysis at the time. We
certainly do not intend to minimize the contributions of academic
chemists to this field, but it is an unalterable fact that much of
the early understanding and many of the early advances came from
industrial laboratories. A special tribute is due to Dr. Charles
Starks of the Continental Oil Company. By the mid sixties, Starks
had formulated the principles of phase transfer catalysis and had
applied for patents on many reactions that others were later to
examine in somewhat greater detail. His mechanistic model of phase
transfer catalysis still stands up well today and is a model for
much of the thinking in this area. It is fitting that Starks
suggested the name "phase transfer catalysis" by which the whole
field is now known. We wish to thank a number of people who have
aided us in many ways in the preparation of this volume. We very
much appreciate the helpful discussions and insights provided by
Drs. Henry Stevens and Andrew Kaman of PPG Industries in Barberton,
Ohio. We also thank Dr. L. A.
The application of silicon reagents in organic synthesis has grown
at an increasingly rapid rate over the last twenty years. This has
been the result of truly international interest. Signifi- cant
contributions have been made by Japanese, Russian, Ger- man,
French, English, American, Swiss and Canadian as well as by
chemists from many other countries. This monograph attempts to
comprehensively cover this field. Some seventeen hundred articles
reporting contributions by over eighteen hundred scientists are
summarized. Nevertheless, I have no doubt that interesting and
important work has been left out. I welcome comments about such
results which should be in- cluded in any future editions of this
monograph. I would like to thank Robert Damrauer who first
stimulated my interest in organosilicon chemistry. In addition, I
thank a number of chemists who have shared my enthusiasm for
silicon chemistry over the years: A Chihi, M.E. Childs, R.A Felix,
H. Firgo, T.Y. Gu, T.Llto, LN. Jung, K.E. Koenig, H.Okinoshima,
M.M. Radcliffe, B.L Rosen, H.S.D. Soy sa, K.P. Steele, R.E. Swaim,
D. Tzeng, P.B. Valkovich, AK. Will- ard, S. Wunderly, and present
members of my research group.
This book presents current research in the study of polypyrrole,
including the preparation of conducting polypyrrole in conventional
medium and ionic liquid medium; matrix assisted pulsed laser
evaporation of polypyrrole; synthesised polypyrrole/Al flake
composite using various corrosion inhibiting dopants; the influence
of solution pH on the electrosynthesis and properties of
polypyrrole films; immobilisation of enzymes on polypyrrole and
potential applications and the recent advances in synthesis of
polypyrrole nanostructures.
This edition collects the bulk of Burke's literary reviews--many of
them reprinted here for the first time--and positions them as
scholarship in their own right. In more than 150 reviews, he
explores poetic, fictional, and critical works to discern the
nature of aesthetics, rhetoric, communication, literary theory,
sociology, and literature as equipment for living.
Kenneth Burke has been widely praised as one of the sharpest
readers of Shakespeare, Freud, and Marx, among others. He was also
well known for turning his many book reviews into essays and
excursions of his own, in the interest of tracking down the
implications of terminologies and concepts, all the while grappling
with some of the greatest minds of the twentieth century. EQUIPMENT
FOR LIVING: THE LITERARY REVIEWS OF KENNETH BURKE collects the bulk
of his literary reviews, many of them reprinted here for the first
time and positioning them as scholarship in their own right. In
over 150 reviews, Burke explores poetic, fictional, and critical
works to discern the nature of aesthetics, rhetoric, communication,
literary theory, sociology, and literature as equipment for living.
Along the way, he encounters some of the finest literary and
critical minds of his day, including writers such as William Carlos
Williams, e. e. cummings, T. S. Eliot, Ezra Pound, Gertrude Stein,
Thomas Mann, Virginia Woolf, Ernest Hemingway, Shirley Jackson,
Henry Miller, and Marianne Moore; and critics and philosophers such
as John Dewey, J. L. Austin, Marshall McLuhan, Edmund Wilson, I. A.
Richards, Denis Donoghue, Wayne Booth, Harold Bloom, Van Wyck
Brooks, Waldo Frank, and Alfred North Whitehead. This collection
organizes reviews across the wide range of fields that Burke
engages, including literature, literary criticism, history,
politics, philosophy, sociology, and biography. NATHANIEL A. RIVERS
(PhD, Purdue University) is Assistant Professor of English at
Georgetown University. RYAN P. WEBER, (PhD, Purdue University) is
Assistant Professor of English at Penn State Altoona. Together,
they received the Emergent Scholar Award from the Kenneth Burke
Society in 2005.
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Goethe Yearbook 16 (Hardcover, New)
Daniel Purdy; Contributions by Angus Nicholls, Bernd Hamacher, Charlton Payne, Christian P. Weber, …
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Groundbreaking essays highlighting Goethe's relevance to
contemporary theoretical debates and Goethe criticism of recent
decades. The Goethe Yearbook, first published in 1982, is a
publication of the Goethe Society of North America and is dedicated
to North American Goethe Scholarship. It aims above all to
encourage and publish original English-language contributions to
the understanding of Goethe and other authors of the Goethezeit,
while also welcoming contributions from scholars around the world.
Goethe Yearbook 16 presents innovative interpretations by young
scholars of Goethe's most prominent works. A special section on
20th-century theory, co-edited by Angus Nicholls, demonstrates the
poet's importance within areas of contemporary debate such as
postcolonial criticism and Heideggerian phenomenology. The volume
includes Judith Ryan's 2007 Presidential Address to the Goethe
Society on the aphorisms in Die Wahlverwandtschaften and the
Wanderjahre, as well as essays on aspects of Hermann und Dorothea,
Iphigenie, Wilhelm Meisters Lehrjahre, and Prometheus. Readers will
also find a surprising interpretation of Schiller on subjectivity
and military strategy, and a feminist archival history of the
Hamburg actress Charlotte Ackermann. Contributors: Volker C. Doerr,
Mary Helen Dupree, Ellis Dye, Bernd Hamacher, Katrin Kohl, Michael
Mandelartz, Jan Mieszkowski, Angus Nicholls, Charlton Payne,
Mattias Pirholt, Myriam Richter, Judith Ryan, and Christian Weber.
Daniel Purdy is Associate Professor of German at Pennsylvania State
University. Book review editor Catriona MacLeod is Associate
Professor of German at the University of Pennsylvania.
Born to an Irish Catholic working-class family on the Northside of
Pittsburgh, Art Rooney (1901-88) dabbled in semipro baseball and
boxing before discovering that his real talent lay not in playing
sports but in promoting them. Though he was at the center of
boxing, baseball, and racing in Pittsburgh and beyond, Rooney is
best remembered for his contribution to the NFL, in particular to
the Pittsburgh Steelers, the team he founded in 1933. As Rooney led
the team in the early years, he came to be known as football's
greatest loser; his influence, however, was instrumental in making
the NFL the best-run league in American pro sports. The authors
show how Rooney saw professional football--and the
Steelers--through the Depression, World War II, the ascension of
TV, and the development of the NFL. The book also follows him
through the Steelers' dynasty years under Rooney's sons, with four
Super Bowl titles in the 1970s alone. The first authoritative look
at one of the most iconic figures in the history of the NFL, this
book is both a critical chapter in the story of football in America
and a thoroughly engaging in-depth introduction to a character
unlike any other in the annals of American sports.
We are inundated with game play today. Digital devices offer
opportunities to play almost anywhere and anytime. No matter our
age, gender, social, cultural, or educational background—we
play. Play in the Age of Goethe: Theories, Narratives, and
Practices of Play around 1800Â is the first book-length work
to explore how the modern discourse of play was first shaped during
this pivotal period (approximately 1770-1830). The eleven chapters
illuminate critical developments in the philosophy, pedagogy,
psychology, politics, and poetics of play as evident in the
work of major authors of the period including Lessing, Goethe,
Kant, Schiller, Pestalozzi, Jacobi, Tieck, Jean Paul,
Schleiermacher, and Fröbel. While drawing on more recent
theories of play by thinkers such as Jean Piaget, Donald
Winnicott, Jost Trier, Gregory Bateson, Jacques Derrida,
Thomas Henricks, and Patrick Jagoda, the volume shows the
debates around play in German letters of this period to be far
richer and more complex than previously thought, as well as more
relevant for our current engagement with play. Indeed, modern
debates about what constitutes good rather than bad practices of
play can be traced to these foundational discourses. Published by
Bucknell University Press. Distributed worldwide by Rutgers
University Press.Â
The year 2018 marked the fiftieth anniversary of May '68, a
startling, by now almost mythic event which combined seriousness,
courage, humor and theatrics. The contributions of this
volume-based on papers presented the conference Does "la lutte
continue"? The Global Afterlife of May '68 at Florida State
University in March 2019-explore the ramifications of that
springtime protest in the contemporary world. What has widely
become known as the movement of '68 consisted, in fact, of many
synchronous movements in different nations that promoted a great
variety of political, social, and cultural agendas. While it is
impossible to write a global history of '68, this volume presents a
kaleidoscope of different perceptions, reflections, and receptions
of protest in France, Italy, and other nations that share in common
a global utopian imaginary as expressed, for example, in the
slogan: "All power to the imagination!" The contributions of this
collection show that, while all social struggles are political,
many lasting changes in individual mentalities and social
structures originated from utopian ideas that were realized first
in artistic productions and their aesthetic reception. In this
respect the various protests of May '68 continue.
This book uses primary documents as a lens through which to examine
historical and present-day efforts to protect endangered species in
the United States and around the world. In this thought-provoking
work, author Edward P. Weber examines the values, policies,
challenges, and approaches to endangered species conservation over
the past 200 years. Using primary source documents and in-depth
analysis of the issues, the reference tracks the evolution of
species protection and conservation in the United States, and
offers a brief look at global programs in the United States and
other parts of the world. The book surveys how different countries
are faring in protecting their plant and animal life, and considers
which guidelines and programs hold the most promise for success in
the future. Chapters compare and contrast past and present
attitudes regarding endangered species and extinction and identify
the influence of major organizations and individuals central to the
debate over endangered species. Judiciously selected primary
documents also explore the impact of species endangerment and loss
on natural ecosystems—and ultimately, on humankind itself.
Finding lasting love and intimacy can be difficult for many women.
Some end up agreeing to sexual relationships hoping that they may
lead to longer, more fulfilling relationships, only to be let down
when they don't. Here, Jill Weber explains why women feel forced
into a male model of dating that barters sex for the unrealistic
hope that it will lead to emotional intimacy. What it leads to for
the woman, most often, is disappointment, despair, and impaired
self-esteem. "Sextimacy," as Weber terms it, traps women in
relationships that are one-sided and lack emotional intimacy. When
this happens, women routinely blame themselves instead of realizing
they should blame their romantic strategy. This book, in a
step-by-step progression, shows a better way to break the cycle and
cultivating better relationships. It teaches women how to recognize
when they are in a Sextimacy event as opposed to the beginning of a
mutually fulfilling relationship that won't leave them racked with
morning-after regrets. And it gives clear direction about what
women can do to find warm romantic partnerships that serve their
needs. Using real stories from women of various ages and stages of
life, Weber shows how patterns of behavior may develop that produce
a vulnerability to being used. Starting in childhood and proceeding
through the crucial teen years, she illustrates the factors that
may go into this limited approach to cultivating romantic
relationships, and provides clear tips on how to stop. Including a
series of self-assessments, the book offers women insight into the
patterns that rob them of the opportunities to grow and to fulfill
their emotional needs. Anyone struggling to break the cycle of
having sex without the attendant intimacy they crave will find in
these pages a warm and ready approach to finding love and
fulfillment.
Born to an Irish Catholic working-class family on the Northside of
Pittsburgh, Art Rooney (1901-88) dabbled in semipro baseball and
boxing before discovering that his real talent lay not in playing
sports but in promoting them. Though he was at the center of
boxing, baseball, and racing in Pittsburgh and beyond, Rooney is
best remembered for his contribution to the NFL, in particular to
the Pittsburgh Steelers, the team he founded in 1933. As Rooney led
the team in the early years, he came to be known as football's
greatest loser; his influence, however, was instrumental in making
the NFL the best-run league in American pro sports. The authors
show how Rooney saw professional football--and the
Steelers--through the Depression, World War II, the ascension of
TV, and the development of the NFL. The book also follows him
through the Steelers' dynasty years under Rooney's sons, with four
Super Bowl titles in the 1970s alone. The first authoritative look
at one of the most iconic figures in the history of the NFL, this
book is both a critical chapter in the story of football in America
and a thoroughly engaging in-depth introduction to a character
unlike any other in the annals of American sports.
Governing Oregon presents a broad and comprehensive picture of
Oregon government and politics as we approach the start of the
third decade of the twenty-first century, shedding light on the
profound changes that have remade Oregon politics in recent years.
The book also seeks to make it clear that much has also remained
the same. The editors of this collection have relied upon leading
scholars from six different Oregon universities, current and former
state leaders in Oregon's executive and judicial branches, and
individuals involved in tribal government and policymaking to tell
the ongoing story of government in Oregon.
Drawing on their work with more than 800 teachers and
administrators from more than 29 districts, the authors present a
pedagogical model that challenges teachers to modify the way they
plan and implement their lessons to better support the linguistic,
cognitive, and social-emotional development of culturally and
linguistically diverse students.
We are inundated with game play today. Digital devices offer
opportunities to play almost anywhere and anytime. No matter our
age, gender, social, cultural, or educational background - we play.
Play in the Age of Goethe: Theories, Narratives, and Practices of
Play around 1800 is the first book-length work to explore how the
modern discourse of play was first shaped during this pivotal
period (approximately 1770-1830). The eleven chapters illuminate
critical developments in the philosophy, pedagogy, psychology,
politics, and poetics of play as evident in the work of major
authors of the period including Lessing, Goethe, Kant, Schiller,
Pestalozzi, Jacobi, Tieck, Jean Paul, Schleiermacher, and FrOEbel.
While drawing on more recent theories of play by thinkers such as
Jean Piaget, Donald Winnicott, Jost Trier, Gregory Bateson, Jacques
Derrida, Thomas Henricks, and Patrick Jagoda, the volume shows the
debates around play in German letters of this period to be far
richer and more complex than previously thought, as well as more
relevant for our current engagement with play. Indeed, modern
debates about what constitutes good rather than bad practices of
play can be traced to these foundational discourses.
A "wicked problem" isn't one with an evil nature, but a problem
that is impossible or difficult to solve because of incomplete,
contradictory, and changing requirements that are often hard to
recognize. Classic examples of wicked problems include economic,
environmental, and political issues. We now live in a world full of
wicked problems, most of them urgent challenges calling out for
creative, democratic, and effective solutions. Ed Weber, Denise
Lach, and Brent Steel, of the Oregon State University School of
Public Policy, solicited papers from a wide variety of accomplished
scholars in the fields of science, politics, and policy to address
this challenge. The resultant collection focuses on major
contemporary environmental and natural resource policy issues, and
proposes an assortment of alternative problem-solving methodologies
to tackle such problems.
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