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      The environment
      May 1997

      Phosphorus Loss from Soil to Water

      by Edited by H Tunney, P C Brookes, A E Johnston

      Phosphorus is an essential element for plant growth and its input has long been recognised as necessary to maintain profitable crop production. However, phosphorus inputs can also increase the biological activity of surface waters and this can lead to the destruction of such aquatic ecosystems. Advanced eutrophication of surface water leads to problems with its use for fisheries, recreation, industry and drinking, due to the increased growth of undesirable algae and aquatic weeds, and oxygen shortages caused by their death and decomposition. It is therefore important to have a good understanding of the causes and mode of phosphorus loss from soil to water, to enable the problems to be controlled and managed. This book has been developed from an international workshop held in Ireland in late 1995. It is the first comprehensive consideration of the topic, and many leading researchers in the area have contributed to it. It is essential reading for all soil scientists and freshwater biologists, as well as for environmentalists, ecologists and agriculturalists concerned with sustainable land management and pollution. The book is also recommended to fisheries managers, fertilizer manufacturers and biologists working for water utilities.

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      2024

      Where is Russia Heading?

      by Jens Siegert

      Vladimir Putin has been ruling Russia for 25 years. There is no end in sight to his dictatorship. He relies on repression at home and is waging a war of destruction against a neighbouring country. The conflict with the West has long become a systemic conflict between an illiberal-autocratic ideology and liberal-democratic principles. Nothing will change as long as Putin remains in power. Nevertheless, as far as can be ascertained under unfree conditions, the majority of the population seems to be supporting Putin. Does this mean that too many people in Russia do not want democracy or peace? Will everything remain the same after Putin? Or is there a chance that Russia will eventually take a different, more democratic path? Whatever the outcome of the war in Ukraine, Russia is not going to disappear. We will still have to deal with our big neighbour in the east. This makes it all the more important to focus on longer-term developments. As a recognised expert on Russian history and society, the author outlines what the post-Putin era might look like. His in-depth analysis makes it clear that Russia is partly Putin, but Putin is not everything about Russia.

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      1995

      Das P-Prinzip

      Naturgesetze im Rechnenden Raum

      by Herbert W Franke

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      March 2017

      Der Neue Mensch

      Aufbruch und Alltag im revolutionären Russland

      by Alexander Schwarz, Rainer Rother

      1917 machten sich die russischen Revolutionäre um Lenin und Trotzki daran, »alle Verhältnisse umzuwerfen, in denen der Mensch ein erniedrigtes, ein geknechtetes, ein verlassenes, ein verächtliches Wesen ist«, wie es bei Karl Marx heißt. Die Spiel-, Dokumentar‑ und Trickfilme aus den Jahren 1924 bis 1932 zeichnen das (Wunsch‑)Bild des jungen Sowjetstaats: Lebensfrohe, gesunde Arbeiter und Bauern erschaffen eine bessere, humane Gesellschaft. Der Neue Mensch tritt darin hervor als Verkörperung der kommunistischen Vision, während das Überkommene und Bourgeoise – ob Bürokraten, Alkoholiker oder Obdachlose – verschwinden soll. Mit Witz und Pathos werden in Filmen wie Bett und Sofa, Der Weg ins Leben oder Turksib sowie zahlreichen Neuentdeckungen der Alltag und die neuen Frauen-, Familien- und Heldenbilder präsentiert – bevor wenig später der Stalinismus die Utopie zunichtemacht.

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      Geography & the Environment
      August 2022

      Key Questions in Environmental Toxicology

      A Study and Revision Guide

      by J P F D'Mello

      Key Questions in Environmental Toxicology is designed as a self-study tool for undergraduate students. Questions review the origin, characterization and environmental distribution of major pollutants, followed by their absorption and metabolic disposition in living organisms. They address implications for the development of cancer, cardiovascular disease, pulmonary dysfunction and neurological conditions in relation to gaseous pollutants, particulates, persistent organic compounds and radioactive emissions, then cover the impact of pollutants on biodiversity, food safety, and water contamination. This book: - Covers toxicology from human morbidity, ecological impact and biodiversity perspectives, and emphasises the impact of diverse organic pollutants in worsening these interconnected phenomena, leading to wider environmental emergencies; - Provides a selection of fill-in-the-gap, multiple choice and short answer question types for students to vary their learning and enhance motivation; - Includes full answer rationales, allowing students to gain true insight into the subject. Providing support to programmes across environmental science, ecology and human health, and covering all the major biological toxins and pollutants as well as unintended consequences of actions designed to improve outcomes, this book may be used in conjunction with the companion volume Introduction to Environmental Toxicology.

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      Kaspar Hauser’s Brothers and Sisters. In search of the wild man

      by P. J. Blumenthal

      What makes human beings human? Is it a life in society that makes us what we are? We often hear stories of persons who have survived in the wild without social contact or who were supposedly raised by wild animals. Kaspar Hauser is probably the most well-known example, but certainly not the only one. P. J. Blumenthal has taken up the hunt for the “wild man” Homo ferus on the boundary between man and animal.

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      1975

      Ni Dieu - ni metre

      Anarchistische Bemerkungen zur Bewusstseins- und Erkenntnistheorie

      by Hans P Duerr

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      September 2006

      Herr P. P. Rubens

      Von der Kunst, berühmt zu werden

      by Büttner, Nils

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      September 2013

      Die irgendwie richtige Richtung

      Eine Pilgerreise

      by Gideon Lewis-Kraus

      »Jakobsweg – Zielstrebigkeit – 10. Juni«. Was soll das? Er kann sich beim besten Willen nicht mehr erinnern, warum er das in sein Notizbuch geschrieben hat. Gideon ruft seinen Freund Tom an, und der weiß es. Sie sind zum gemeinsamen Pilgern verabredet. Am 10. Juni geht es los. Der Weg ist das Ziel, alles andere ist egal. Hauptsache, die Richtung stimmt, irgendwie. Santiago di Compostela ist weit entfernt, aber Berlin mit seinen Galerieeröffnungen, Bars und Clubs glücklicherweise auch. Pilgernd will er sich von den Zwängen der grenzenlosen Freiheit befreien. Und der ersten großen Krise seines Lebens entkommen, in die er geriet, als der Vater, ein schwuler Rabbi aus New Jersey, die Familie verließ, um mit seinem Freund zusammenzuziehen. Pilgernd kommt er dem eigenen Glück und dem Mysterium seiner Familie, Vaters verborgenem Leben, auf die Spur. Zum Schluss hat sich etwas verändert. Er hat sich verändert. Er hat das Rätsel seines Lebens gelöst. »Im Verlauf eines Jahres, im Verlauf dieses schönen, lebensklugen, drogen-, freundschaft- und sexverherrlichenden Buches wird Gideon Lewis-Kraus geradezu in eine Pilgerschaftsabhängigkeit geraten und von Ort zu Ort ziehen, fort aus der Welt der unendlichen Freiheiten oder der unendlichen Abhängigkeiten, hinüber in die Wanderwelt der Notwendigkeit.« Volker Weidermann, FAS

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      October 2010

      P. S. Ich töte dich

      13 Zehn-Minuten-Thriller

      by Herausgegeben von Fitzek, Sebastian

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