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Interviews with American Composers
In 1972-73, Barney Childs embarked on an ambitious attempt to survey the landscape of new American concert music. He recorded freewheeling conversations with fellow composers, most …
Common Man, Society and Religion in the 16th century/Gemeiner Mann, Gesellschaft und Religion im 16. Jahrhundert
Der zweisprachige Sammelband vereinigt zum Teil bahnbrechende Ergebnisse einer interdisziplinären Forschungstagung, deren Beiträge sozial-, wirtschafts-, kultur- und …
Crucial Event Rehabilitation Therapy
This book describes a new strategy for rehabilitation from injury and/or disease using Crucial Event Therapy. Recent studies have shown that individuals can recuperate more rapidly …
Latomus and Luther
Who was Jacob Latomus? What did he write in the series of lectures to which Luther penned an answer in 1521, an answer which is now so central to many interpretations of the great …
Simplifying Complexity: Life is Uncertain, Unfair and Unequal
In life, we often face unavoidable complexities in terms of our ability to understand or influence outcomes. Some questions which arise due to these complexities are: Why can't the …
Biodynamics
You can never step in the same river twice, goes the old adage of philosophy. An observation on the transitory nature of fluids in motion, this saying also describes the endless …
The Myth of the Independent Voter
Few events in American politics over the past two decades have generated more attention than the increasing number of voters calling themselves Independent. By the early 1970s …
Where Minds and Matters Meet
The American West - where such landmarks as the Golden Gate Bridge rival wild landscapes in popularity and iconic significance - has been viewed as a frontier of technological …
An Essay on the Importance of Being Nonlinear
One of my favorite quotes is from a letter of Charles Darwin (1887): "I have long discovered that geologists never read each other's works, and that the only object in writing a …
On the Fractal Language of Medicine
On the Fractal Language of Medicine bridges a very clear gap between the knowledge gained over the last 20 years in the physical and life sciences about network theory, organ …
Networks of Echoes
Networks of Echoes: Imitation, Innovation and Invisible Leaders is a mathematically rigorous and data rich book on a fascinating area of the science and engineering of social webs. …
Reformatio et memoria
Die Erinnerung an die Reformation war für die protestantischen Konfessionen in der Frühen Neuzeit identitätsstiftend. Die Memoria war gleichsam der Erinnerungsbogen, der die …