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April 2021Among Fellow Primates
Views of a monkey researcher
by Volker Sommer
Man brings apocalyptic plagues to the world and his fellow primates – from global warming to the destruction of forests. While millions of monkeys and apes lived on Earth only a few decades ago, today many species are strongly endangered. In this book the anthropologist and monkey researcher Volker Sommer calls on us to finally protect the fundamental rights such as the right to life, freedom and physical integrity of the great apes. For all his seriousness, Sommer is also a great storyteller who deals with his own profession with humour, sympathy and in a highly instructive way.
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October 2003Das Primat der Wahrnehmung
by Maurice Merleau-Ponty, Lambert Wiesing, Jürgen Schröder, Lambert Wiesing
In drei erstmalig übersetzten Selbstdarstellungen aus den Jahren 1933, 1934 und 1946 entwirft Maurice Merleau-Ponty das Programm einer dezidiert phänomenologischen Wahrnehmungsphilosophie. Beginnend mit vorausschauenden Andeutungen über seine zukünftigen Absichten, Kritiken seiner philosophischen Gegner und Beschreibungen seiner angestrebten Methoden, endet er mit einer faszinierenden Verteidigung seiner berühmten These vom Primat der Wahrnehmung. In der Perspektive der epochalen Phänomenologie der Wahrnehmung erscheint das Phänomen der Wahrnehmung mehr als nur ein mögliches Thema der Phänomenologie zu sein: Das Primat der Wahrnehmung impliziert Konsequenzen für die Philosophie in all ihren Erscheinungsformen. Merleau-Pontys Entdeckung der Wahrnehmung wird zu einem gleichermaßen aktuellen wie radikalen Programm für das phänomenologische Philosophieverständnis.
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May 2021"Academician takes you to explore" popular science picture book: Little monkey finds mother
"Academician takes you to explore" popular science picture book:
by Song Xian, Shen Yan
"Academician Takes You to Explore" is a set of popular science picture books for children aged 6-12. The Shanghai Science and Technology Museum and the Beauty Science Team jointly planned this series of books. Relying on the content, through vivid stories and exquisite paintings, the scientists’ live lectures are adapted into interesting science picture books, so that young readers can appreciate the progress of cutting-edge scientific research in novel stories and pictures. This book mainly describes the development of primates and cloning technology. The story is introduced from the protagonist Mia and introduces various primates, including their relationship with us. In addition, the somatic cell clone monkey project led by Chinese scientists was also introduced, which was the first breakthrough in this biological frontier problem in the world.
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2020How Animals Hammer, Drill and Strike
Tool Use in the Animal Kingdom
by Peter-René Becker
From insects to fish as well as birds and primates: the use of tools is amazingly widespread in the animal kingdom. It’s a misnomer to presume that humans are distinguished by tool use and conscious capacity. So where is culture initiated? The biologist Peter-René Becker has evaluated numerous studies and cites plenty of evidence for the use of the hammer and anvil, lances, bait or sponges. Animals also use “tools as social implements”. Ultimately, the depth of man’s conscience singles him out from other animals.
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January 2020Jane Goodall, Updated Edition
by Tara Welty
On July 16, 1963, Jane Goodall stepped onto the shores of the Tanganyika in Gombe National Park in Tanzania, Africa, for the very first time. The 23-year-old researcher was about to begin the adventure of a lifetime, studying wild chimpanzees in their forest home. The discoveries she made there about chimpanzee behavior changed the way people thought about chimpanzees and human beings. Since then, Goodall has become a tireless conservationist, working to protect the chimpanzees and improve their lives. Her work has spanned more than 50 years. This eBook explores Goodall's fascinating research and how it has opened windows into both primates' and humans' behavior.
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MedicineDecember 2016Mononegaviruses of Veterinary Importance, Volume 2
Molecular Epidemiology and Control
by Muhammad Munir, Muhammad Munir, Paula Kinnunen, Jonas Wensman, Bronwyn A Clayton, Ina Smith, Glenn Marsh, Somporn Techangamsuwan, Watanyoo Pratakpiriya, Muhammad Zubair Shabbir, Anke Brüning-Richardson, Satya Parida, Ashley C Banyard, Fernando Rosado Spilki, Mikael Berg, Sandra Cuevas-Romero, Jorge Moreno-Lopez, Marina Mozgovoj, María José Dus Santos, Mattia Cecchinato, Helena Lage Ferreira, Elena Catelli, Paulo Eduardo Brandão, Jens H Kuhn, Steven B Bradfute, Peter P Jahrling, Consuelo Rubio-Guerri, Jose Manuel Sánchez-Vizcaíno, Arun K Dhar, Refugio Robles-Sikisaka, Andrew Orry, F C Thomas Allnutt
The Mononegavirales is an order of viruses affecting large, small and marine animals and is responsible for diseases including Rinderpest, Rabies and Ebola. This book discusses the epidemiology and control of Mononegaviruses that pose a significant threat to animals in terms of severity and epidemiological risk. The book also addresses viruses with zoonotic potential, and many that can be used as models in the study of infectious disease. With its comprehensive coverage, each chapter is dedicated to a different disease and has been authored by renowned scientists who have made seminal contributions to the field. This prestige reference work is arranged over two volumes: volume 1 pathobiology and molecular diagnosis, and volume 2 molecular epidemiology and control. This broad ranging text covers mononegaviral diseases of livestock, horses, dogs and cats as well as rodents, primates, fish and marine mammals, and will be a valuable reference source for virologists, field veterinarians, infection and molecular biologists as well as immunologists and animal scientists. ; Mononegavirales are an order of viruses affecting large, small and marine animals and humans. This companion volume to "Mononegaviruses of Veterinary Importance: Pathobiology and Molecular Diagnosis" discusses viruses that cause a significant threat to animals, including PPR, Rhinderpest, Rabies, Ebola, Snakehead Rhabdovirus and more. ; Part I: Mononegaviruses of Livestock, Horses, Dogs and CatsChapter 1: BornavirusesChapter 2: Newcastle Disease VirusChapter 3: Hendra and NipahChapter 4: Canine Distemper VirusChapter 5: Peste des Petits RuminantsChapter 6: Contribution of Epidemiological Knowledge and Control Strategies in the Eradication of Rinderpest VirusChapter 7: Bovine Parainfluenza Virus Type 3Chapter 8: Porcine Rubulavirus (PorPV-LPMV)Chapter 9: Bovine Respiratory Syncytial VirusChapter 10: Avian MetapneumovirusChapter 11: Rabies VirusPart II: Mononegaviruses of Rodents, Primates, Fish and Sea MammalsChapter 12: Veterinary Importance of FilovirusesChapter 13: Sea Mammal MorbillivirusesChapter 14: Infectious Hematopoietic Necrosis Virus
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February 2013Das Primat der Außenpolitik.
Das politische System des Reichs im 15. Jahrhundert.
by Wefers, Sabine
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Humanities & Social SciencesOctober 2021National perspectives on a multipolar order
by Benjamin Zala
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Science & MathematicsMarch 2022Encyclopedia of Scale Insect Pests
by Takumasa Kondo, Gillian Watson
Scale insects feed on plant juices and can easily be transported to new countries on live plants. They sometimes become invasive pests, costing billions of dollars in damage to crops worldwide annually, and farmers try to control them with toxic pesticides, risking environmental damage. Fortunately, scale insects are highly susceptible to control by natural enemies so biological control is possible. They have unique genetic systems, unusual metamorphosis, a broad spectrum of essential symbionts, and some are sources of commercial products like red dyes, shellac and wax. There is, therefore, wide interest in these unusual, destructive, beneficial, and abundant insects. The Encyclopedia of Scale Insect Pests is the most comprehensive work on worldwide scale insect pests, providing detailed coverage of the most important species (230 species in 26 families, 36% of the species known). Advice is provided on collection, preservation, slide-mounting, vouchering, and labelling of specimens, fully illustrated with colour photographs, diagrams and drawings. Pest species are presented in two informal groups of families, the 'primitive' Archaeococcids followed by the more 'advanced' Neococcids, covered in phylogenetic order. Each family is illustrated and diagnosed based on features of live and slide-mounted specimens, with information on numbers of genera and species, main hosts, distribution, and biology. For the important pest species, coverage includes information on the morphology of live and slide-mounted specimens, common names, principal synonyms, geographical distribution, plant hosts, plant damage and economic impact, reproductive biology, dispersal, and management strategies including biological, cultural and chemical control, sterile insect techniques, regulatory control, early warning systems and field monitoring. An additional complete list of scale insect pests worldwide is provided, comprising 642 species in 28 scale insect families (about 8% of the 8396 species of living scales known), with information on plant hosts, geographical distribution and validation sources. Beneficial uses of scale insects as sources of red dyes, natural resins and waxes, as agents for invasive weed control. The importance of their honeydew to bees for making honey, and as a food source to other animals, are included. Academic researchers, students, entomologists, pest management officials in agribusiness or government including plant quarantine identifiers, extensionists, farmers, field scientists and ecologists will all benefit from this book.
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Business, Economics & LawApril 1905The Acquisitive Society
by R.H. Tawney
This 1926 survey, written by a distinguished social and economic historian, examines the role of religion in the rise of capitalism. Arguing that material acquisitiveness is morally wrong and a corrupting social influence, the author draws upon his profound knowledge of labor and politics to show how concentrated wealth distorts economic policies. Colorful but credible, this study offers a timeless vision of alternative means toward a just economic, social, and intellectual order.
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March 2021Right to Dementia
A plea
by Thomas Klie
People are living longer, and people are developing dementia. But our consumer society, which is optimised for working silently, is helpless in the face of those who have gone mad from its midst. The burden of caring for them is borne largely by their dependants and by carers from Eastern Europe. In his extremely stirring book, Professor Thomas Klie argues that we should include people with dementia as part of our lives and recognise that it is possible to live a happy and fulfilled life even with dementia – under the right conditions. Especially in the light of societal conflicts over income distribution fuelled by the corona pandemic, Klie is convinced that the dominant culture is measured by how it treats the subject of dementia.
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2019History of the Throw-Away Society
The drawback of consumption
by Wolfgang König
Sooner or later everything is thrown away. In the consumer society, however, usable and serviceable products that may be as good as new are also thrown away. Such behaviour is the result of a long-term process that has developed over a period of one-and-a-half centuries. The change was led by the USA, and the Federal Republic of Germany followed. It started at the turn of the last century with personal hygiene: articles such as toilet paper, sanitary towels, nappies and paper handkerchiefs. After the Second World War, a large number of other disposable articles were soon added, such as paper cups and plastic dishes, nylon stockings and pens, razor blades, beverage cans and much more besides. Wolfgang König shows how business and consumers have together made throwing things away perfectly normal – and discusses how the throwaway society may be overcome.
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Humanities & Social Sciences2014History of Ukraine from KGB Secret Files
by Volodymyr Viatrovych
The unknown and classified KGB history of the largest country in Europe - Ukraine is the history of people, events, documents and files. The files have answers to many questions. The most important of which - why did a war begin again in Europe? Why is it so important for Russia to conquer Ukraine? Why are Ukrainians putting up such a powerful resistance? Historian Volodymyr Viatrovych, who declassified the secret archives of the Soviet special services from the Cheka to the KGB, talks about the history of Ukraine, the USSR and Eastern Europe from 1918 to 1991. The reader, is offered, along with various heroes and traitors, those who thought they were in control of events, and those who thought they had no power over them, to recreate the nearly century-old chess game between the Ukrainian liberation movement and the creators of the "prison of nations." Described in reports and recreated by a historian, this work looks at the cunning “special operations”, deadly moves, information wars and complex games among several players that are all an attempt to find an answer to the question: what creates our destiny - human will or circumstances?
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Literature & Literary StudiesOctober 2018Selected Poetry
by Vasyl Stus
Vasyl Stus was not only a poet of rare talent, publicist, translator and literary critic, but he is also a personification of "the voice of conscience in the world of shaky and blurred concepts of honour, truth, decency." He spent nearly half of his life in Soviet detention centres, solitary confinement cells, Mordovian and Kolyma camps and toiling at mines. The Soviet penal system deprived him of family visits, seized his poems, letters and manuscripts, physically abused him and tried to destroy him morally but it never managed to break his spirit.The poems in this collection are the best examples of Vasyl Stus's lyrics. In these lines, civic motives and the artist's pain for the fate of Ukraine are intertwined with a delicate lace of love lyrics and philosophical reflections on life and the purpose of man. Poems are full of hope and unyielding resolve.
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Humanities & Social SciencesJanuary 2018Noble society
Five lives from twelfth-century Germany
by Jonathan R. Lyon
This book provides scholars and students alike with a set of texts that can deepen their understanding of the culture and society of the twelfth-century German kingdom. The sources translated here bring to life the activities of five noblemen and noblewomen from Rome to the Baltic coast and from the Rhine River to the Alpine valleys of Austria. To read these five sources together is to appreciate how interconnected political, military, economic, religious and spiritual interests could be for some of the leading members of medieval German society-and for the authors who wrote about them. Whether fighting for the emperor in Italy, bringing Christianity to pagans in what is today northern Poland, or founding, reforming and governing monastic communities in the heartland of the German kingdom, the subjects of these texts call attention to some of the many ways that noble life shaped the world of central medieval Europe.
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August 2004Eine Geschichte der Medien
Von der Oblate zum Internet
by Jochen Hörisch
Dieses Standardwerk läßt die wichtigsten Stadien der Mediengeschichte von den Anfängen bis zum Internet Revue passieren. Es setzt mit dem Urknall ein: Am Anfang war der Big Bang, dessen Nachhall wir heute noch vernehmen. Heute aber überlagern sich im Multimedia-Rauschen alte und neue Erfindungen, senden durcheinander und sind auf der Suche nach ihrer eigentlichen Funktion. Die leitende These des Buches ist: Während die frühe Medienwelt im Bann von Stimme und Schrift sinnzentriert ist, wendet sich die neuere Medientechnik an die Sinne und sprengt das traditionelle Primat der Bedeutungen und zentrischen Kommunikationsverhältnisse. Audiovisuelle Hybridmedien wie der Computer, der am Internet hängt, bringen beide Stränge von Sinn und Sinnen zusammen und verstricken uns in ein Netz, das die Subjekte, die User und Loser zu Schnittstellen macht.
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Business, Economics & LawJanuary 2024Welcome to the club
The life and lessons of a Black woman DJ
by DJ Paulette
In Welcome to the club, Manchester legend DJ Paulette shares the highs, lows and lessons of a thirty-year music career, with help from some famous friends. One of the Haçienda's first female DJs, Paulette has scaled the heights of the music industry, playing to crowds of thousands all around the world, and descended to the lows of being unceremoniously benched by COVID-19, with no chance of furlough and little support from the government. Here she tells her story, offering a remarkable view of the music industry from a Black woman's perspective. Behind the core values of peace, love, unity and respect, dance music is a world of exclusion, misogyny, racism and classism. But, as Paulette reveals, it is also a space bursting at the seams with powerful women. Part personal account, part call to arms, Welcome to the club exposes the exclusivity of the music industry while seeking to do justice to the often invisible women who keep the beat going.
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August 2013Nachricht von ruhigen Momenten
89 Geschichten. 64 Bilder
by Alexander Kluge, Gerhard Richter
Im goldenen Herbst des Jahres 2012 stand »Die Welt« für einen Tag still, und als Sinnbild des Stillstands lag dort ein schläfriger Hund, wo sonst die Schlagzeilen drohen. Was war geschehen? Gerhard Richter, einer der global maßgeblichen Künstler, hatte die Herrschaft ergriffen und allen 30 Seiten der »Welt«-Ausgabe vom 5. Oktober 2012 seinen Handstempel aufgedrückt: Bilder von ruhigen Momenten in unruhigen Zeiten, Aufhebung des politischen Primats, Privates statt Welthistorisches, vor allem aber: kunstvolle Kontraste zwischen Schärfe und Unschärfe. Bei der öffentlichen Vorstellung dieser ungewöhnlichen Kunstaktion hielt Alexander Kluge die Laudatio. Spontan begleitete er die Fotos mit Geschichten. Gerhard Richter antwortete darauf ebenso spontan mit dem Vorschlag eines gemeinsamen Buches. Richter lieferte weitere Bilder und Kluge weitere Geschichten. So entstand nach dem Erfolgsbuch »Dezember« eine zweite gemeinsame Arbeit der beiden im Februar 1932 geborenen Künstler: ein Buch zur zeitgleich durchlebten Geschichte, so scharf wie unscharf gesehen.
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May 1983Die moralischen Regeln
Eine neue rationale Begründung der Moral. Übersetzt von Walter Rosenthal
by Bernard Gert, Walter Rosenthal
Innerhalb der umfangreichen Literatur zur Ethik seit dem Ende des Zweiten Weltkriegs ist das Buch von Gert, obwohl bisher eher wenig beachtet, eines der substantiellsten und originellsten. Es ist einfach und spannend geschrieben, auch für den Laien gut lesbar und stellt andererseits für den »Fachmann« eine Position dar, mit der sich gründlich auseinanderzusetzen er nicht umhin kann. Der originellste Aspekt dieser Position ist der Ausgangspunkt beim Begriff des Übels. Man könnte insofern Gerts Position als einen negativen Utilitarismus bezeichnen. Gegen den gewöhnlichen Utilitarismus wird der Primat des Begriffs des Übels gegen den des Guten hervorgehoben. Ebenso wichtig ist für Gert der Begriff der Handlungsrationalität. Ein Übel ist nach Gert etwas, was alle Menschen, wenn sie nur rational sind, zu vermeiden versuchen. Daraus folgt, daß es für alle rational ist, universale Regeln öffentlich zu befürworten. So ergeben sich »moralische Grundregeln«, durch deren Explikation Gert die in ethischen Schriften so häufige Verflüchtigung in die Abstraktion vermeidet.
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April 2013
Alles Boulevard
Wer seine Kultur verliert, verliert sich selbst
by Mario Vargas Llosa, Thomas Brovot
Was einmal Kultur war, ist heute Spektakel, ein kunterbunter Amüsierbetrieb, leerer Lärm. Doch wie ist es dazu gekommen? Und was können wir dagegen tun? In seiner fulminanten Gegenwartsanalyse zeichnet Mario Vargas Llosa einige der tiefgreifenden gesellschaftlichen Veränderungen der letzten Jahrzehnte nach und findet Gegengift in überraschend vitalen Tugenden. Der totale Boulevard, die Dreistigkeit der Politik, die frivole Banalisierung nahezu aller Lebensbereiche – Kultur wird heute systematisch verramscht. Und zwar als Folge eines Prinzips, über das weltweit Einigkeit zu herrschen scheint: dass Unterhaltung und Spaß unser allerhöchstes Gut zu sein hätten. Pointiert, leidenschaftlich und ohne Scheu vor hartkantigen Überzeugungen setzt sich der Nobelpreisträger und Weltbürger mit den vielgestaltigen Manifestationen dieser Tendenz auseinander – wachen Blickes streift er durch die Galerien und Museen, liest die Bücher und Illustrierten, sieht Fernsehen und Serien, schaut den Politikern auf die Finger. Und Vargas Llosa sondiert die Möglichkeitsbedingungen einer alternativen Haltung. Gegen das Primat der gängigen globalen Zerstreuungskultur setzt er so Anspruch und Wertebewusstsein, gegen die grassierende Beliebigkeit eine Idee des Kanons, gegen die ideologischen Formatierungen durch »political correctness« ermutigt er zu Reflexion und geistiger Autonomie. »Alles Boulevard« ist ein so unbequemes wie notwendiges Buch, das ganz zur rechten Zeit kommt.
