223 results for '"Blum, Rudolf'

To understand Russian history without understanding serfdom--the peasant-lord relationship that shaped Russia for centuries--is impossible. Still, before Jerome Blum, no scholar had tackled the...

The controversy over the use of primates in research admits of no easy answers. We have all benefited from the medical discoveries of primate research--vaccines for polio, rubella, and hepatitis B...

In Killing Hope, William Blum, author of the bestselling Rogue State: A Guide to the World's Only Superpower, provides a devastating and comprehensive account of America's covert and overt military...

Abt. 1, Bd. 1. Briefwechsel, Text / Rudolf Borchardt, Hugo Von Hofmannsthal -- Abt. 1, Bd. 2. Briefwechsel, Kommentar / Rudolf Borchardt, Hugo Von Hofmannsthal -- Abt. 2, Bd. 1. Briefe 1895-1906 /...

The panorama of American animal study, from the natural history of Alexander Wilson and John James Audubon through the development of professional zoology and its large institutions, provides the...

"This is an immensely valuable book and one which is clearly designed to appeal to all musicians—not just string players...Mr. Blum has captured in great detail the little things that so often make a...

"Joel Colton's biography of Blum is unquestionably the best that has been produced to date by either a Frenchman or a foreigner and the best that we are likely to get for some time. It is both...

In the brilliant world of Vienna at the turn of the century four men―Karl Renner, Otto Bauer, Max Adler, and Friedrich Adler―sought to develop political and economic resolutions to the racial and...

The startling coming-of-age story of famed anthropologist Margaret Mead whose radical ideas challenged the social and sexual norms of her time.The story begins in 1923, when twenty-two year old...

The philosopher and historian of culture Wilhelm Dilthey (1833-1911) has had a significant and continuing influence on twentieth-century Continental philosophy and in a broad range of scholarly...

“A stone-cold masterwork of psychological tension. Its final pages had me holding my breath.” —Flynn Berry, New York Times Book ReviewThe seemingly inexplicable estrangement between a woman and her...

Rudolf Vierhaus's work is much more than a political history of Germany from the Thirty Years' War to the end of the Seven Years' War. His study reconstructs the historical elements that marked this...

Based on close reading of historical documents--poetry as much as statistics--and focused on the conceptualization of technology, this book is an unconventional evocation of late colonial Netherlands...

Based on close reading of historical documents--poetry as much as statistics--and focused on the conceptualization of technology, this book is an unconventional evocation of late colonial Netherlands...

"Science writing offers some wonderful adventures," notes Patrick Young, a former editor of Science News. "I've visited the South pole, stared into a steaming volcano, covered the first human landing...