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European Literature and the Latin Middle Ages

European Literature and the Latin Middle Ages

Ernst Robert Curtius

In a new introduction, Colin Burrow provides critical insights into Curtius's life and ideas and highlights the distinctive importance of this wonderful book.
Alexander the Great: The Unique History of Quintus Curtius

Alexander the Great: The Unique History of Quintus Curtius

Elizabeth Baynham

Much of what we know comes from the history of Quintus Curtius, who wrote a history of Alexander in the first century AD. Baynham explores Curtius' historical style and his presentation of the legendary king.
Ernst Kantorowicz: A Life

Ernst Kantorowicz: A Life

Robert E. Lerner

This is the first complete biography of Ernst Kantorowicz (1895–1963), an influential and controversial German-American intellectual whose colorful and dramatic life intersected with many of the great events and thinkers of his time.
Ernst Kantorowicz: Erträge Der Doppeltagung Institute for ...

Ernst Kantorowicz: Erträge Der Doppeltagung Institute for ...

Robert L. Benson

Fundierte Analysen seiner Gedankenwelt wechseln sich ab mit pers nlichen Erinnerungen an den Gelehrten. Historisches Jahrbuch Inhalt: R. L. Benson / J. Fried: Einleitung M. Gr fin D nhoff: Ernst Kantorowicz R. E. Lerner: ...
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Max Ernst

This series acts as an introduction to key artists and movements in artistory.
Ernst Ludwig Kirchner 1880-1938: On the Edge of the Abyss of ...

Ernst Ludwig Kirchner 1880-1938: On the Edge of the Abyss of ...

Norbert Wolf

Ernst Ludwig Kirchner was born on May 6, 1880, in Aschaffenburg, Lower Franconia. His family - as he later never tired of emphasizing - could be traced back on his father's side to the sixteenth century. His father, Ernst, an engineer and ...
Ernst Ulrich von Weizsäcker: A Pioneer on Environmental, ...

Ernst Ulrich von Weizsäcker: A Pioneer on Environmental, ...

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A Pioneer on Environmental, Climate and Energy Policies Ernst von Weiszäcker ... Steuersystems'', in: Mauch, Samuel; Iten, Rolf; Weizsäcker, Ernst U. von; Jesinghaus, Jochen (Eds.): Ökologische Steuerreform (Zurich: Rüegger Verlag).
Ernst Kurth: Selected Writings

Ernst Kurth: Selected Writings

Ernst Kurth

Ernst Kurth Lee A. Rothfarb. Deutschen (1890), a "rhapsody of irrationality," ... Stern's book contains the most extensive critical exposition in English of Langbehn's background and career. In four detailed chapters Stern covers Langbehn's ...
Robert Jordan's The Wheel of Time: The Eye of the World #10:

Robert Jordan's The Wheel of Time: The Eye of the World #10:

Robert Jordan

written by ROBERT JORDAN script by CHUCK DIXON art by ANDIE TONG colors by NICOLAS CHAPUIS letters and interior design by BILL TORTOLINI cover by ANDIE TONG original series edits by ERNST DABEL & RICH YOUNG thematic ...
Bulletin - Cooperative Extension Service, Montana State ...

Bulletin - Cooperative Extension Service, Montana State ...

Montana State College. Cooperative Extension Service

... Arnold Engellant Ft. Benton Laverne Barnes Great Falls Fr. Carl Erickson Ft. Benton Dale Bauman Power Olga Erickson Ft. Benton Dale Beck Fairfield Gene Ernst Stanford Catherine Becker Geyser Ward N. Ernst Stanford Robert Beckstrom ...
Ernst Equation and Riemann Surfaces: Analytical and ...

Ernst Equation and Riemann Surfaces: Analytical and ...

Christian Klein

Ernst. Equation. As already noted, the Einstein equations do not appear to be generically integrable. To find exact solutions, spacetimes with symmetries have to be considered, see [35] for a review. As Geroch has shown [64], already a space- ...
Historiography: Ancient, Medieval, and Modern, Third Edition

Historiography: Ancient, Medieval, and Modern, Third Edition

Ernst Breisach

In this pioneering work, Ernst Breisach presents an effective, well-organized, and concise account of the development of historiography in Western culture.
Historiography: Ancient, Medieval, and Modern, Third Edition

Historiography: Ancient, Medieval, and Modern, Third Edition

Ernst Breisach

In this pioneering work, Ernst Breisach presents an effective, well-organized, and concise account of the development of historiography in Western culture.
Max Ernst and Alchemy: A Magician in Search of Myth

Max Ernst and Alchemy: A Magician in Search of Myth

M. E. Warlick

WITHIN the remarkable continuity of Ernst's visual motifs — birds, machines, vegetation, vertical forests, horizontal landscapes, and seascapes — the feminine image was persistently embedded. Derived from both Freudian and alchemical ...
Sufism: An Introduction to the Mystical Tradition of Islam

Sufism: An Introduction to the Mystical Tradition of Islam

Carl W. Ernst

With that fact in mind, Carl Ernst explores the broadest range of Sufi philosophies and practices to provide one of the most complete and comprehensive introductions to Sufism available in English.
Refugees from the Third Reich in Britain

Refugees from the Third Reich in Britain

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Jennifer Tavlor Into Exile: Ernst Sommer in London This paper examines the life and work of the Jewish German-Bohemian writer Ernst Sommer in England and, by reference to previously unpublished correspondence, details the extent of his  ...
Joan Mitchell: Lady Painter

Joan Mitchell: Lady Painter

Patricia Albers

... Yvonne Hagen, Anne Hailey, John Hailey, James Harithas, Robert Harms, Robert Hasterlik, Elga Heinzen, Evans Herman,John Holabird, Sara Holt, Jacqueline Hyde, Ernst Jaffe, Shirley Jaffe, Hollis Jeffcoat, Paul Jenkins, Consuelo Joerns, ...
Ernst Mach’s World Elements: A Study in Natural Philosophy

Ernst Mach’s World Elements: A Study in Natural Philosophy

E.C. Banks

Like Richard Hönigswald's Kritik der Machschen Philosophie (1903) and Herbert Buzello's Kritische Untersuchungen von Ernst Machs Erkenntnistheorie (1911), some trenchant criticism came from neoKantian philosophers anxious to defend ...
Following Muhammad: Rethinking Islam in the Contemporary World

Following Muhammad: Rethinking Islam in the Contemporary World

Carl W. Ernst

Avoiding the traps of sensational political exposes and specialized scholarly Orientalism, Carl Ernst introduces readers to the profound spiritual resources of Islam while clarifying diversity and debate within the tradition.
Marcel Duchamp and Max Ernst: The Bride Shared

Marcel Duchamp and Max Ernst: The Bride Shared

David Hopkins

The Glass in fact provides an opening for the next phase of the discussion, since the prominent bird images in Ernst's picture — the descendants of many earlier bird and bird/human figures as will be shown — bear surprising links with ...
Notices of the American Mathematical Society

Notices of the American Mathematical Society

American Mathematical Society

... John A. Beesley, E. Maurice Beghi, Luigi * Behnke, K. Behrens, Ernst-August Beig, Robert * Beissinger, Janet Simpson * Bekkali, Mohamed * Belair, Luc Bell, Harold Bell, Mark Robert Bell, Steven R. Bell, Wolfgang Bellamy, David P Belley,  ...
The Marxist Philosophy of Ernst Bloch

The Marxist Philosophy of Ernst Bloch

Wayne Hudson

Ehrhard Bahr, Ernst Bloch (Berlin: Colloquium, 1974) p. 17, in the Köpfe des XX. Jahrhunderts series. This volume contains useful, though highly selective, biographical material, much of it supplied by Karola Bloch. For Bloch's life generally, ...
A Dubious Past: Ernst Jünger and the Politics of Literature ...

A Dubious Past: Ernst Jünger and the Politics of Literature ...

Elliot Y. Neaman

A Dubious Past examines from a new perspective the legacy of Ernst Jünger (1895-1998), one of the most fascinating figures in twentieth-century German intellectual life.
A Lifelong Interest: Conversations on Art and Science with ...

A Lifelong Interest: Conversations on Art and Science with ...

Ernst Hans Gombrich

A series of probing conversations held by Didier Eribon with Sir Ernst Gombrich, OM, CBE, FBA, seeking to discover how his intellect and tastes had been nurtured during his early years in Vienna, and how they developed after he emigrated to ...
Perspectives on Ernst Von Dohnányi

Perspectives on Ernst Von Dohnányi

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Laura Moore Pruett Ernst von Dohnanyi's American Rhapsody for orchestra, op. 47 (1953), was composed in celebration of the sesquicentennial of Ohio University and dedicated to the university and its president, John Calhoun Baker.
Barbarian Memory: The Legacy of Early Medieval History in ...

Barbarian Memory: The Legacy of Early Medieval History in ...

N. Birns

104 See FrederickA.de Armas, Don Quixote amongthe Saracens:AClash of Civilizations and LiteraryGenres (Toronto: University ofToronto Press, 2011), p.38 . 105 E. R. Curtius,European Literature andthe Latin MiddleAges, tr. Willard R. Trask ...

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