Originally published in 1930. This book is not intended to be a discussion on German history, but to talk about its epochs, a period in which some fresh beginning is made, some fresh determining element enters, some event occurs to give a new direction to the course of history. The book is concerned with the critical moments of German history, the turning points in its course. Those are what we want to consider, wnd also to select as points of vantage from which we may survey the development of the German nation, viewing the panorama section by section.

Originally published in 1930 this book discusses the critical moments in German history, with a view to surveying the development of the German nation and an attempt to understand the events of the 1920s with reference to significant chapters in Germany history from the past.

The importance of the global rural-urban matrix is often overlooked due to urban-normativity. But sometimes agrarian populism and a pastoral rural imaginary result in the equally fallacy of a rural-normativity, as in Jeffersonian nostalgia for a lost way of life that never existed. The nature of rurality in North America is important to study, but as Alessandro Bonanno makes clear, we cannot limit ourselves to the study of one or two nation-states. We must take a global perspective when it comes to the bio-physical environment and the nature of the world capitalist system. This collection takes such a perspective. The editor frames the contributions with a Meta-Paradigm called the New Political Economy Perspective (NPEP) and explains the roots of that approach in Classical Political Economy and the Canadian Political Economy Tradition of Harold Adams Innis. There are chapters by an anthropologist, a geographer, two generalist sociologists and a group of rural sociologists. There is also a chapter on psychiatry and mental health; and, another chapter which discusses pedagogy. The use of an inter-disciplinary framework to study global issues makes this a stimulating book which provides a window on issues that are often overlooked.

Originally published in 1930 this book discusses the critical moments in German history, with a view to surveying the development of the German nation and an attempt to understand the events of the 1920s with reference to significant chapters in Germany history from the past.

Der vorliegende Teilband des Handbuchs der inneren Medizin bringt aus der Thematik der Blutgerinnungsstoerungen und hamorrhagischen Diathesen den Abschnitt der plasmatischen Hamostasedefekte, der Koagulopathien, zur Dar- stellung. Innerhalb der letzten beiden Dekaden hat die Hamostaseforschung eine Unzahl von entscheidenden Impulsen erfahren, die eine Fulle von Erkennt- nissen uber die atiologischen Determinanten und pathogenetischen Mechanis- men der Blutgerinnungsstoerungen erbracht haben. Dank der enormen metho- dischen Fortschritte in der biochemischen Grundlagenforschung ist es gelungen, fur die meisten angeborenen Koagulopathien den molekularen Defekt der plas- matischen Komponente zu identifizieren. Gerade die detaillierte Analyse ver- schiedener Varianten einzelner Gerinnungsfaktoren, so z. B. beim v. Willebrand- Jurgens-Syndrom oder bei der Dysfibrinogenamie, hat einen tiefen Einblick in molekular-genetische Zusammenhange erlaubt und subtile Kenntnisse uber den Metabolismus des Hamostasesystems und die Dynamik seiner biologischen Regulation hervorgebracht. Die Steuerung der Aktivierungskinetik im Gerin- nungs-und Fibrinolysesystem und ihre Kontrolle durch den vielschichtigen Ein- fluss verschiedener Inhibitoren hat belegt, dass enge Wechselbeziehungen zu an- deren protektiven Enzymsystemen des Organismus, wie z. B. dem Komplement-, dem Kallikrein-Kinin-System und den Phagozytosemechanismen, bestehen. Die grundlegenden Erkenntnisse uber die Pathogenese und Pathophysiologie der gestoerten Hamostasefunktion haben nachhaltig die Entwicklung effektiver therapeutischer Massnahmen in Gang gesetzt. Die Moeglichkeit der gezielten Rekompensation des Hamostasepotentials durch Substitution mit gereinigten Gerinnungsfaktoren oder die Unterbrechung einer Umsatzsteigerung mittels geeigneten Inhibitoren garantiert heute die Beherrschung nicht nur akuter, le- bensbedrohlicher Blutungskomplikationen, sondern auch die segensreiche Dauertherapie bei angeborenen Blutungsubel, wie z. B. der Hamophilie.

The key to winning the next war lies in the flexibility of air power. A critical analysis of the 1973 Arab-Israeli War using Professor William P. Snyder's model for war planning demonstrates how flexible air power clearly influenced the outcome of the war for Israel. In order to be successful on the battlefield in the future, US military leaders and strategists must be flexible in planning and building air power doctrine, strategy and tactics. The US Air Force cannot win a war on its own, but all must understand that it is the flexibility of the air arm that makes victory possible in the air-land battle concept.