Die Entwicklung der biologischen Gedankenwelt: Vielfalt, Evolution und Vererbung

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"Ein einzigartiges Buch, das nur von einem Mann wie Ernst Mayr geschrieben werden konnte, der nicht nur einer der bedeutendsten Evolutionsbiologen dieses Jahrhunderts, sondern auch ein großer Philosoph, Biologiehistoriker und außergewöhnlicher Schriftsteller ist. Kein anderes Buch erzählt so klar und kritisch die Evolution der Ideen, die zur modernen Biologie führten."
(Nobelpreisträger François Jacob)

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This conference focused on the most recent experimental and theoretical advances in the field of heavy ion reactions at the Coulomb barrier, including specific aspects of the interplay between mechanism and nuclear structure explored in binary reactions. The material presented is important for nuclear physicists, accelerator oriented nuclear instrumentation and computing of many-body systems.

International Symposium of Exotic Nuclei (AIP Conference Proceedings / High Energy Physics) (AIP Conference Proceedings / High Energy Physics)

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This book is a collection of talks presented at the International Symposium on "Exotic Nuclei" EXON2006 which was held in Khanty-Mansiysk Russia (Russia, west Siberia) during 17-22 July 2006. The International Symposium of Exotic Nuclei (EXON2006) was dedicated to the problems of producing and investigating nuclei far from the line of stability. The main goal of the Symposium was to discuss the latest results on the production and study of the properties of the lightest to heaviest nuclei, as well as, the plans for future joint investigations in the field of exotic nuclei. The big interest in the synthesis of new isotopes of the light elements could explain the numerous reports on this topic. In principle, in the region of neutron-rich isotopes of light elements the nucleon dripline has been reached. Principally new information was obtained for the neutron-rich nuclei close to the magic neutron numbers N = 20 and N = 28. It turned out that, what concerns their stability, the magicity of these nuclei was of no importance. New magic numbers N = 6, 16, and 32 were discovered. In the last few years the experiments on the synthesis of the new transfermium elements and the study of their properties have been really intensive. The search for new superheavy elements is being done in four leading laboratories - the Flerov Laboratory of Nuclear Reactions at JINR (Dubna), the National Center GANIL (France), GSI (Germany), and RIKEN (Japan). Nowadays unique techniques for the synthesis and investigation of the properties of exotic nuclei are being developed together with the realization of large accelerator projects for radioactive ion beams. The creation of the new radioactive ion beam factories needs big investments, and they can be built only with the support of international collaborations.

Super-heavy elements: Theoretical predictions and experimental generation : proceedings of the 27th Nobel Symposium held at Ronneby, Sweden, June 11-14, 1974

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Super-heavy elements: Theoretical predictions and experimental generation : proceedings of the 27th Nobel Symposium held at Ronneby, Sweden, June 11-14, 1974

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Superheavy Elements: Proceedings
Texas Tech U International Symposium on Superheavy Elements , and M. A. K. Lodhi
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This smooth introduction for advanced undergraduates starts with the fundamentals of lasers and pulsed optics. Thus prepared, the student is introduced to short and ultrashort laser pulses, and learns how to generate, manipulate, and measure them. Spectroscopic implications are also discussed. The second edition has been completely revised and includes two new chapters on some of the most promising and fast-developing applications in ultrafast phenomena: coherent control and attosecond pulses.

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Fairly good but not excellent.......2006-08-17

The second edition of this book is revised and enriched with new and hot materials. The concepts of "coherent control" and "attosecond pulses" are added as they become more and more significant.

The first 3 chapters of the books do not seem very useful. Although the authors tried their best, especially the discussion of "mode-locking" is not as clearly stated as Demtroder's "Laser Spectroscopy". More vivid, illustrative and tangible examples would be very useful.

The rest of the book can be considered good and in my opinion this books does not deserve more than 4 stars.

This short book is an excellent overview.......2000-03-27

I use femtosecond lasers in my graduate work, and I found this book an excellent source of review material in preparing for my oral examinations. It is not very detailed or mathematical, but has excellent phenomenonological discussions of a variety of laser properties and techniques. It is also handy because it is fairly recent. I found particularly useful the sections on amplification, semiconductor lasers, and ultrashort diagnostics.

This book is not a comprehensive guide to building and using an ultrashort pulse laser system because it lacks so much detail. However, the equations are explained very well, and the references seem fairly comprehensive.

The book is also completely missing a discussion of fiber laser and ultrashort pulse propogation in fibers. The section on nonlinear ultrashort optics is also far too brief.

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Who's better? Billie Holiday or P. J. Harvey? Blur or Oasis? Dylan or Keats? And how many friendships have ridden on the answer? Such questions aren't merely the stuff of fanzines and idle talk; they inform our most passionate arguments, distill our most deeply held values, make meaning of our ever-changing culture. In Performing Rites, one of the most influential writers on popular music asks what we talk about when we talk about music. What's good, what's bad? What's high, what's low? Why do such distinctions matter? Instead of dismissing emotional response and personal taste as inaccessible to the academic critic, Simon Frith takes these forms of engagement as his subject--and discloses their place at the very center of the aesthetics that structure our culture and color our lives.

Taking up hundreds of songs and writers, Frith insists on acts of evaluation of popular music as music. Ranging through and beyond the twentieth century, Performing Rites puts the Pet Shop Boys and Puccini, rhythm and lyric, voice and technology, into a dialogue about the undeniable impact of popular aesthetics on our lives. How we nod our heads or tap our feet, grin or grimace or flip the dial; how we determine what's sublime and what's "for real"--these are part of the way we construct our social identities, and an essential response to the performance of all music. Frith argues that listening itself is a performance, both social gesture and bodily response. From how they are made to how they are received, popular songs appear here as not only meriting aesthetic judgments but also demanding them, and shaping our understanding of what all music means.

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Popular music's value? As social practice........2005-09-22

I am writing this review in part to augment the poor rating that this book has received due to the incompetent reviewer at the bottom of the page, but I do have a few thoughts. Yes, Simon Frith has written exhausting amounts of work on many aspects of popular music, and much of it is written for an educated audience (and therefore may not be suitable for college dropouts or barely-grads who think that it's some "kewl book about your favorite music" or something like that.)

The other reviewer hit the nail very close to the head, I do not take issue with the review immediately below mine. What that reviewer did not mention is that this book can be read as one big reply to Theodor Adorno, who thought that pop music had no value because it was repetitive and the parts were interchangable. Frith goes to great pains to stress that the value of popular music (and here's the punchline to the subtitle) is that it facilitates discussion. The value is in the process of interpretation. It's not that your favorite song doesn't matter, but the fact that you talk about it with your friends, and that you make value judgments about music as part of the pleasure of listening matters more.

This book probably won't help you much unless you're a graduate student in music, sociology, or media. If you do fit into one of those categories, Frith is very useful here for rounding out your Literature Review. He provides a much-needed answer to Adorno, an answer grounded in social practice. Of course citing Walter Benjamin always helps, but Benjamin works at the same high level of abstraction as Adoro and never quite gets down to earth to what people actually do with mass-reproduced cultural objects, let alone music. Frith does.

This is my favorite book by Frith, as I happen to fall into the category above and need to cite him for exactly the reasons mentioned. What am I sick of? I am sick of textual analysis of rock lyrics wherein academics attempt to read "gender" and "race" and other tired sociological categories into songs, all the while prattling about how the song "constructs" gender, or better yet "constructs a space for the negotiation" of gender. That cultural studies crud-language buys you nothing, sociologically speaking. It's just another person's interpretation unless there is empirical research to back it up. In many cases, too, such language is a way of taking a long time to not say what you're afraid to just come out and say--or better yet, maybe you don't even know what you're trying to say. Frith is guilty of excessive interpretation in his book, "On Record"--though even there he's never as dense and obfuscatory as say, Jody Berland or (gasp!) Celia Lury, queen of the 30-clause conclusion sentence. But here, in _Performing Rites_, there is no need to use such language, and in fact, _Performing Rites_ serves as an argument against any one person's interpretation as being the be-all end-all of meaning (even if that person has a Ph.D.). The value in music is not in finding some predermined meaning, but rather in every one of us trying to figure out what the song means to us. If you don't agree, go articulate a series of spaces within the hermeneutics of practice for the negotiation of abjection.

From "this sounds good" to "this is good.".......2004-09-24

There is a lot to say about "Performing Rites," or rather there is a lot to say about the many different trajectories cameoed as this book progresses. It is a work that deliberately seeks to question rather than to answer, offering provocatively fertile and arguable points rather than a systemic totalizing argument.

Keeping this in mind, the basic question Frith seeks out is: "Well, we know we make value judgments about popular music all the time. How and Why are these made?"

That's a tall order. And Frith seeks to start from the listener's "common sense" perspective, but also incorporates production as well. Of course the first problem is the notion of "value" in cultural studies--where words like "good" and "bad" are either spoken from a condescending sneer, highly interrogated, or avoided altogether. Rather than seeing value for music in its "popularity," Frith contends that music is always already deeply woven into schemes of value--and that's why it becomes both popular and inherently political. Music has authors, intentions, narratives, and these cannot be separated from questions of value. Challenging capitalistic market measures of measuring both popularity and value (such as Billboard), Frith takes a cue from Kant, seeking to discover and refine the logic in 'common-sense' responses to music--from genre rules, to poltical distinctions between noise and sound. Frith treats rhythm at length, and challenges the notion that rhythm is 'inherently' tied to erotics, seeking instead historical and postcolonial explanations for this.

Along the way, Frith demonstrates that much of the ninetheenth century cultural judgments and ideologies about music are still with us, albeit in mutated form. Folk, Art, and Pop are Frith's interwoven discourses about how music is perceived in Western Culture. "Folk" promises tradition, immediacy, and a critique of commercialism. "Art" promises mental and cultural transcendence. "Pop" promises access and portability. Songs are not mere texts or poetry--music gives sense and a frame for lyrics. Technology, Performance, and their meeting in the Microphoned Amplified Vocalists all play roles. Technology not only disseminates, but inseminates. Digital recordings and remasters do not uncover "the original object," but instead construct a new sound object according to changing cultural codes about music. Pop Performance involves constructing an image that gives the impression of truth and sincerity, but also offering seduction and danger as a lure. Vocalists DO play an instrument-- a microphone as well as a voice, and this alone has an enourmous impact on the meanings of music.

All this leads Frith to argue that for the 'meaning of music.' Music means something because it offers not argumentation, but experience. For Frith, music constructs a "sense of identity" through the experiences it offers of time, sociability, and the body. Music makes possible a new-kind of self-recognition--one that through all these historical discourses places us in different 'imagined' (but no less real) communities, coherent cultural narratives. This "fusion" as Frith calls it, of bodily practice and imaginative fantasy--is the integration of aesthetics and ethics:

From: "This sounds good."
To: "This is good."

That this all sounds very religious--a "fusion" of bodily ritual practice, and imaginative phantasy---should not be lost on the reader. Given the title of the book, it is certainly not lost on Frith.

Enough!.......2003-02-08

I bought this book when it was first published some years back. A mistake. Frith takes a subject, pop/rock music, which offers so much joy, inspiration and pleasure then systematically removes all the fun with an over-educated academic hodge-podge of verbiage which should never have seen the light of day - let alone been put between the covers of a book. There are many books on popular music and culture which capture the rock'n'roll spirit or at least acknowledge it's existence, Frith should take his thesaurus and footnotes somewhere more suitable - maybe a study of nineteenth century novelists? Let's hope he's inflicted his last outrage on pop music.

Tyrol and the Tyrolese: The People and the Land in Their Social, Sporting and Mountaineering Aspects

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Tyrol and the Tyrolese: The People and the Land in Their Social, Sporting and Mountaineering Aspects
William Adolph Baillie-Grohman
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ASIN: 1402171323
Release Date: 2001-05-22

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This Elibron Classics book is a facsimile reprint of a 1876 edition by Longmans, Green, and Co., London.

THE BLESSING CUP 24 Simple Rites for Family Prayer-Celebrations

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THE BLESSING CUP 24 Simple Rites for Family Prayer-Celebrations
Rock Travnikar
Manufacturer: St. Anthony Messenger Press
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The church of our fathers as seen in St. Osmund's rite for the Cathedral of Salisbury: With dissertations on the belief and ritual in England before and after the coming of the Normans

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The church of our fathers as seen in St. Osmund's rite for the Cathedral of Salisbury: With dissertations on the belief and ritual in England before and after the coming of the Normans
Daniel Rock
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The Church Of Our Fathers V1: As Seen In St. Osmund's Rite For The Cathedral Of Salisbury

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The Church Of Our Fathers V1: As Seen In St. Osmund's Rite For The Cathedral Of Salisbury
Daniel Rock
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In Four Volumes. This scarce antiquarian book is included in our special Legacy Reprint Series. In the interest of creating a more extensive selection of rare historical book reprints, we have chosen to reproduce this title even though it may possibly have occasional imperfections such as missing and blurred pages, missing text, poor pictures, markings, dark backgrounds and other reproduction issues beyond our control. Because this work is culturally important, we have made it available as a part of our commitment to protecting, preserving and promoting the world's literature.

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Easter: Action Pack for Cool Chicks
Lois Rock
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Easter: Fun & Festive Things to Make
Lois Rock
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First Festivals: Christmas (First Festivals)

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First Festivals: Christmas (First Festivals)
Lois Rock
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This work is designed to help children aged 4 to 7 celebrate the Christmas festival, with projects, stories, and crafts to help parents and teachers work on Christmas preparation with their children.

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Killing Neptune's Daughter
Randall Peffer
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Noelle Werlin, the beautiful wife of a rock 'n' roll legend, was never able to shake the ghosts of her past, but dying at the hands of one of those ghosts never crossed her mind.

In Woods Hole on Cape Cod, Noelle grew up as Neptune de Oliveira's daughter Celestina-otherwise known as Tina the Tease. Changing her name and running away to New York as a teenager, she thought she could run away from her life of unspeakable sexual depravity on the cape.

Tina's body is found with a marlin spike through her heart, raped, and sliced up. Her cocaine addicted, philandering, rockstar husband, Butch Werlin, is the NYPD's primary suspect. But the morbid class reunion of childhood boyfriends who congregate for Tina's funeral think other-wise. They think the murderer is actually from Woods Hole, and that somehow their high school buddy Billy Bagwell has been at the center of some gruesome web since their teenage years.

This psycho-thriller carries Billy Bagwell deeper and deeper into long-repressed memories of 35-year-old crimes from the days when Billy was known as "Bagger, the crazy Bagman." As the days grow darker, Billy finds himself caught in a turbulent tide of past homoerotic encounters, lost innocence, rage, religion and lust.

Randall Peffer is the author of Watermen, Logs of the Dead Pirates Society and six travel guides. His writing has appeared in Smithsonian, Reader's Digest, National Geographic, New York Times, Washington Post, San Francisco Examiner, Chicago Tribune and others. This is his first novel.

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Unforgettable.......2004-10-16

From the instant you open this book, you become entranced by the riveting plot and beautiful lines of description. The rape and murder of Noelle Werlin, known to everyone else Tina, brings back vivid childhood memories to Billy Bagwell, as he returns to Woods Hole for her funeral. After decades of burying his past, Billy relives it in a thrilling ride back through his adolescence to find her killer. Randall Peffer's work has been compared by some to such works by Quentin Tarantino and David Lynch.

Killing Neptune's Daughter is not simply a dark suspence novel about rape, murder, and violence. It sends a profound message to teens and adults alike about coping with current and past demons. It is a story of coming of age and breaking the code of silence. It is a book that will neither bore you nor leave you empty handed. And the ending is truly unforgettable.

No book that I've come across has had such a complete and lasting impact like Killing Neptune's Daughter. It's a masterpiece of human emotions.

dark high school ýfriendsý tale.......2004-06-30

After all the bad things she did and the things that were done to her, Tina left Woods Hole on Cape Cod when she finished eleventh grade. She totally remade herself into another woman named Noelle and married a famous rock star who was a heavy drug user and wife cheater. Their names were household words and their exploits were featured in the media at every opportunity. One night she leaves her village apartment and goes to her favorite spot, the St. Lukes-in-the-Fields, where a man rapes her and then kills her with a marlinspike.

Also living in the village is sports reporter Billy Bagswell and even though he only met her once in New York City, he returns home for her funeral. When Tina was living in Woods Hole, she was a slut, having sex with who she chose and reveling in the power it gave her. Billy and his friend who really cared for her think the killer is living in Woods Hole and has nothing to do with her New York lifestyle. They reminisce about the bad old days and begin to piece together the various puzzle parts of Tina's life, trying to find the perpetrator.

KILLING NEPTUNE'S DAUGHTER is not a pretty book but it accurately reflects the darker goings that go on between high school students. One can't help but feel sorry for the victim because circumstances forced her to behave the way she did and each of her "friends" have their own guilt to bear. Randall Peffer is a talented writer who gives new meaning to the words vigilante justice.

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A moving collection of rock 'n' roll obituaries, written by the fans, the famous and the familiar, of those who helped build modern music, yet failed to make it into the twenty-first century. From Elvis Presley, Kurt Cobain, Keith Moon, Buddy Holly, Jerry Garcia, Freddie Mercury and Sam Cooke, to Tiny Tim and The Singing Nun.

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