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Founded in 1943, Editora do Brasil has a wonderful history of commitment to culture and education. As a solid and experienced publisher, we are increasingly connected to the new times. One of the largest Brazilian companies in the segment, we believe in strengthening education and culture nationally and abroad. With a diverse and award-winning catalog, Editora do Brasil is always seeking to stay current and offer the best material. Our books feature a variety of themes by some of the best authors and designers, some of whom are internationally renowned.
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November 1994Technik ohne Grenzen
by Bernward Joerges, Ingo Braun, Sissy Westphalen
Ziel des vorliegenden Bandes ist es, aus einem möglichst breiten Spektrum sozialwissenschaftlicher Forschungsrichtungen Sichtweisen, Konzeptualisierungsangebote und Theoretisierungsbestände für die Untersuchung großer technischer Systeme zusammenzutragen und miteinander zu konfrontieren. So sind in diesem Band neben der Technik- und Industriesoziologie auch die Technik-, Kultur- und Kunstgeschichte, die Politikwissenschaften, zwei Spielarten der Systemtheorie sowie die Organisation und Wissenschaftsforschung vertreten.
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Land forces & warfareCommand Culture
Officer Education in the U.s. Army and the German Armed Forces, 1901-1940, and the Consequences for World War Ii
by JÞorg Muth
In Command Culture, Joerg Muth examines the different paths the United States Army and the German Armed Forces traveled to select, educate, and promote their officers in the crucial time before World War II. Muth demonstrates that the military education system in Germany represented an organized effort where each school and examination provided the stepping stone for the next. But in the United States, there existed no communication about teaching contents or didactical matters among the various schools and academies, and they existed in a self chosen insular environment. American officers who finally made their way through an erratic selection process and past West Point to the important Command and General Staff School at Fort Leavenworth, Kansas, found themselves usually deeply disappointed, because they were faced again with a rather below average faculty who forced them after every exercise to accept the approved "school solution." Command Culture explores the paradox that in Germany officers came from a closed authoritarian society but received an extremely open minded military education, whereas their counterparts in the United States came from one of the most democratic societies but received an outdated military education that harnessed their minds and limited their initiative. On the other hand, German officer candidates learned that in war everything is possible and a war of extermination acceptable. For American officers, raised in a democracy, certain boundaries could never be crossed. This work for the first time clearly explains the lack of audacity of many high ranking American officers during World War II, as well as the reason why so many German officers became perpetrators or accomplices of war crimes and atrocities or remained bystanders without speaking up. Those American officers who became outstanding leaders in World War II did so not so much because of their military education, but despite it.
