Zaire, the Political Economy of Underdevelopment

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Guy Gran , and Galen Spencer Hull
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2004 Supplement to Family Law
Judith Areen
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Jerry J. McCoy , and Kathryn W. Miree
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Irrigation agriculture in the southwest United States: Regional variation of crop patterns (Marburger geographische Schriften)
Siegfried Birle
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Diese Einführung in die physikalische Chemie und Biophysik richtet sich vor allem an Studierende der Biologie, Biochemie und generell der Life Sciences, das heißt auch an Chemie - und Physikstudenten, die sich für Anwendungen ihres Faches im Bereich der Biologie interessieren. Aufbauend auf einem Vorlesungskurs vermittelt das Buch die Grundlagen der physikalischen Chemie biologischer Prozesse, die für ein Verständnis moderner Biowissenschaften notwendig sind. Übungsbeispiele, die zu einem gründlichen Durchdenken des Stoffes anregen und das Überprüfen des Erlernten erleichtern, ergänzen die einzelnen Kapitel. Die vierte Auflage wurde vollständig überarbeitet und beinhaltet zahlreiche Ergänzungen in den einzelnen Kapiteln. So wurde die Thermodynamik durch einen Abschnitt über Elemente der statistischen Thermodynamik erweitert. Die Elektrochemie wurde weitgehend neu verfasst und internationalen Normen angepasst.

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Qualitative Analysis and Electrolytic Solutions
Edward J. King
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Edward Jasper King
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Very readable & informative.......2004-04-07

This is a very readable and enjoyable book about the great physicist. The easy-going but informative style is reminiscent of the "Dummies" series books which I'm a great fan of for their ability to impart a great deal of information painlessly and enjoyably. I learned many interesting things about Einstein the scientist and Einstein the man that I didn't know before, and I've read several other bio's of the great physicist. After providing some historical background on the scientific events that led up to Einstein's great discoveries, discussing the ideas of Ernst Mach, Helmholtz, Hertz, Planck and so on, the authors launch into a discussion of his most important contributions, which were the paper on the photoelectric effect, the special theory of relativity, and the general theory of relativity.

There is such a wealth of information and detail about both Einstein's scientific ideas and his public and personal life that it's difficult to summarize it all, but I'd like to mention a few of the more interesting things that I learned. Einstein's role as scientist, cultural icon, humanitarian, father, public speaker, and legendary and mythic genius are all discussed.

One interesting thing is that the book explodes one myth about Einstein, which is that he did poorly in the German gymnasium in everything but math and science. Actually he excelled in Latin and languages too, so contrary to the popular myth, he wasn't a total failure in the public schools. He did run into trouble with the form-master at the gym and graduated without a diploma, and in high school he was even less happy and threw fits so he could be declared mentally unstable by the family doctor so he could stay home from school. Despite this Einstein was reading Kant's ideas about epistemology and logic by the time he was 13. This also enabled him to avoid required military service. In college Einstein routinely skipped classes although he got caught up using his friend Marcel Grossman's notes. But Einstein still graduated at the bottom of his class.

Einstein's increasing discomfort with the conclusions of quantum theory such as the famous uncertainty principle led him to try to disprove it in a famous paper he authored with the younger David Bohm (who only recently passed away). His opposition to the theory despite all the evidence once led Oppenheimer to say, "Einstein is cuckoo."

In addition to his more well-known contributions, I didn't know that Einstein had collaborated with fellow physicist Leo Szilard on the invention of a new refridgerator pump. The idea for the pump came from a famous but tragic incident in which an entire Berlin family was killed when the pump leaked toxic gases into their home. Einstein and Szilard set out to develop a safer pump using magnetic fields and coils and sold two of their designs to the Electrolux Co. Eventually they would hold 45 patents for three different models of the home refridgeration pump. Einstein developed a new type of compass, a hearing aid, and had a patent for an auto-exposure camera.

Einstein had more romantic dalliances that one might expect for such a cerebral man, and in some ways the most interesting part of the book, since I was already familiar with his scientific ideas from other books, was the section on what happened to his children and grandchildren. Hans Albert Einstein, his oldest son, became a civil engineer and was professor of civil engineering at U.C. Berkeley when he retired. He was an expert on the transportation of sediment by water and the process he developed is still in use today. Unlike the older son, the younger brother wasn't especially talented at math and science and prefered the humanities, but he suffered from depression and even schizophrenia his entire life, and after being looked after by his mother until she passed away, was placed in a mental institution where he lived the rest of his life. Lieserl, the daughter, is thought to have been put up for adoption since she was born before Einstein and Mileva were married because of the stigma of illegitimacy in those days. Although no-one really knows, she is thought to have died in childhood but nothing is really known of her life.

Of Einstein's two grandchildren by Hans, Bernard is a physicist and author and wrote a biography of his famous grandfather. The grandaughter Evelyn is a psychologist and cult-deprogrammer. Evelyn has another dubious distinction, which is that after Thomas Harvey autopsied Einstein's brain to see what was so special about it, she received a portion of it. Apparently, it was transported across country by automobile and resulted in a book entitled Driving Mr. Albert: A Trip Across America with Einstein's Brain, by Michael Paterniti. I don't know if the book is any good but with a title like that I'll have to look it up and see. But I can certainly recommend the present book for anyone interested in the life and ideas of the great physicist, and this would probably be the first book I'd recommend to someone who wanted to read up on Einstein.

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Eugenia Grandet [Eugenie Grandet]
Honorato Balzac
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Retreat from Reconstruction is a clarifying, comprehensive analysis of the course of Reconstruction during the 1870s, a decade that provided the true test for the political programs of the Republicans. This award-winning study interweaves events in the South with the political developments in the North that eventually brought about the withdrawal of support from the program.

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By the 1920s in Central Europe, it had become a truism among intellectuals that natural science had "disenchanted" the world, and in particular had reduced humans to mere mechanisms, devoid of higher purpose. But could a new science of "wholeness" heal what the old science of the "machine" had wrought? Some contemporary scientists thought it could. These years saw the spread of a new, "holistic" science designed to nourish the heart as well as the head, to "reenchant" even as it explained. Critics since have linked this holism to a German irrationalism that is supposed to have paved the way to Nazism. In a penetrating analysis of this science, Anne Harrington shows that in fact the story of holism in Germany is a politically heterogeneous story with multiple endings. Its alliances with Nazism were not inevitable, but resulted from reorganizational processes that ultimately brought commitments to wholeness and race, healing and death into a common framework.

Before 1933, holistic science was a uniquely authoritative voice in cultural debates on the costs of modernization. It attracted not only scientists with Nazi sympathies but also moderates and leftists, some of whom left enduring humanistic legacies. Neither a "reduction" of science to its politics, nor a vision in which the sociocultural environment is a backdrop to the "internal" work of science, this story instead emphasizes how metaphor and imagery allow science to engage "real" phenomena of the laboratory in ways that are richly generative of human meanings and porous to the social and political imperatives of the hour.

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German Holistic Visions Versus "The Machine"........2004-07-30

_Reenchanted Science: Holism in German Culture from Wilhelm II to Hitler_ by Anne Harrington is an important book that takes a look at an alternative perspective that grew out of nineteenth century science within Germany in particular which may be called "holism". The central idea behind holism is to perceive the world in terms of "whole" in accordance with the tenet that "the whole is greater than the sum of its parts" in opposition to the mechanistic science - rationalism, materialism, positivism, Darwinism, and capitalism - that had grown out of the French revolution. German holism bears especially the influences of Kant and Romanticism (as well as Schopenhauer, Schelling, Hegel, and Haeckel and Bergson) and may be described as mystical, metaphysical, influenced by "irrationalism" and "life philosophy". In particular, the writings of Goethe are frequently found opposed to the mechanistic/deterministic views of Newton. In biology, Darwinism and the "man as machine" motif are considered anathema and instead a more unified view of man in terms of his spiritual essence is sought for. In terms of politics, German holism bore the brunt of the period of crisis culminating in the First World War, thus becoming anti-democratic (even aristocratic), conservative, or reactionary. Also, many of the German holistic scientists were influenced by Richard Wagner or Chamberlain, especially with regard to anti-Semitism. This book begins with Max Weber's famous speech against mysticism in science and takes a look at several chief figures who may be described as holistic scientists (including Jakob von Uexkull - behavioral biologist, Constantin von Monakow - clinical neurologist, Max Wertheimer - Gestalt psychologist, and Kurt Goldstein - holistic neuropsychiatrist) as well as the difficult subject of the influence of holism on the Nazis (eugenics, euthanasia movements, etc.). Jakob von Uexkull was an important aristocratic biologist who under the influence of Kantian subjectivism proposed a "soap bubble" theory of the scientist as observer, which he called the Umwelt theory (a term which was later deployed by ecologists to describe the ecological surroundings of an animal). Uexkull was a friend of both Hans Driesch, an important voice for "vitalism" within biology, and Houston Stewart Chamberlain. In Uexkull's view both Darwin and Haeckel were mistaken, and he sought to bring out the contrast between the Darwinian viewpoint and his holistic viewpoint in what may be termed "the gorilla-machine". In his play "God or Gorilla", Uexkull writes, "It is . . . for the individual person not a matter of indifference whether the world is ruled by a moral or an amoral principle. Eventually there comes a day, even for the most confirmed atheist, when he must address himself to [the problem of] the Rule of the Universe. If - instead of a Spirit who, standing over the people, produced him and his companions, and at the same time speaks his conscience to him - if he should then find nothing but a lifeless machine that mocks all his heart's yearnings, then this machine will begin to take on a satanic life. A horrible grotesque face grins at him. This is what [William Jennings] Bryan has identified as the Gorilla. Omnipotence has fallen into the hands of an ape-like monster." And, later Uexkull was to write to his friend Chamberlain, "With the destruction of Christianity and its God, the human being stops being human and becomes something worse than a beast; he becomes a machine, the most pitiless being of all" revealing his opposition to mechanism and Darwinism. Later Uexkull was to write a reactionary and anti-democratic work entitled _Biology of the State_ which argued for a race-based and medieval view of the state which influenced some National Socialists. A second important holistic scientist is that of Constantin von Monakow, who was influenced by his early Russian orthodox upbringing as well as belief in a household demon called the Domowoi. Monakow worked in Switzerland as a clinical neurologist on the brain injured and his views came to increasingly resemble those of a fellow Swiss, the psychoanalyst Carl Gustav Jung. Monakow proposed a theory of the "horme" much like the "entelechy" of Hans Driesch as his guiding principle. He argued that the mind must undergo a breakdown ("diaschisis"). Other influences on Monakow included Sigmund Freud (whose view of human nature he sought to overcome in his search for God) and the neurologist John Hughlings Jackson. A third series of holistic scientists are those who created the theory of the Gestalt (particularly within psychology). Although individuals such as Chamberlain would use this term to refer to the unity of the German Volk, Gestalt psychology came to be dominated by a Jewish influence. The basic principle involved was that "the whole exceeds the sum of its parts", and individuals involved in the creation of this viewpoint include the philosopher Christian von Ehrenfels, the psychologist Max Wertheimer who later was forced to flee Germany along with many other Jewish radicals when the Nazis came to power, and the German psychologist and student of Wertheimer, Wolfgang Koehler. Wertheimer came to embrace a leftist political vision championing democracy and freedom, but also arguing against relativistic concepts of "truth" and "number" which he believed to be at root in Nazism. A fourth holistic scientist is that of the Jewish psychiatrist Kurt Goldstein. Goldstein argued against what he believed was the "therapeutic nihilism" of his time in his work with brain injured soldiers. He was influenced by such thinkers as Ernst Cassirer, Goethe, phenomenology (Husserl), and existentialism (Merleau-Ponty, Tillich). The book ends with a discussion of Nazi holism in medicine and euthanasia as well as the subsequent role of holism in the philosophy of the German Green party. I believe the other reviewers have been profoundly unfair to this particular point of view, holism. Indeed, Gestalt psychology played a large role in interaction with Albert Einstein. Also, in one interpretation the Nazi bureaucracy may be perceived as a continuation of the mechanistic thinking which began in the French Revolution and not as an overflowing of holistic (mystical?) ideas within science.

Holistic horror shows.......2002-12-23

This is a very useful overview of the history and legacy of holism in German Science concluding in the period of Uexhull, Driesch and also the gestalt psychologists, with particular attention to the fiasco of Weimar period, which gave the subject a bad name indeed. The book thus traces, in part, the roots of this tradition back to the generation before Darwin, in the era of the first developmentalists, following Schelling, Kant and Goethe. Even as Darwinian reductionism begins to generate its own limitations, the counter tradition begins to fall into an abyss where the confused 'profundities' of well-meaning (perhaps) thinkers suddenly find themselves in the cultural quagmire of Nazism. The book opens with an account of Weber's famous speech on 'disenchantment'. The reenchantment was a bit of a walpurgisnacht.

On the anti-scientific origins of 'holism'.......2000-05-31

This book is well worth reading. One cannot live in Germany without noticing the wide acceptance of "Heilpraktiker", the practicioners of pseudo-scientific `holistic medicine' (homeopathy). Anne Harrington's book traces the growth of `holistic' ideas in biology and medicine in Germany the last century as steming from Goethe's anti-scientific (anti-Newtonian) influence into the Nazi era, and the influence of former Nazis on the Green movement (Why not? They've influenced nearly everything else). An irritation: the book shows a picture of a Swiss alpine lake as an example of unrealistic romanticism. The Swiss lake and alpine scene are, however, real!

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With a deep belief in partnerships for conservation, Richard C. Bartlett, Chairman of The Nature Conservancy of Texas, explores the past and ongoing efforts of individuals and groups—private, public, federal, and state—to save the best of Texas' natural landscapes and the myriad species of plants and animals they support. Drawing on some 100,000 miles of backroads travel, Bartlett vividly describes many of the areas that, through a commitment to partnerships, have already been preserved in their natural state. Fine color photographs by Leroy Williamson provide a striking visual counterpoint to the text.

These words and images give well-deserved credit to the people responsible for saving some of the best of Texas. They also highlight the need to continue to join together to preserve our natural environment so that the beauty and diversity we enjoy today will be available for future generations. It is the author's hope that Saving the Best of Texas will be a catalyst in that process.

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Saving the Best of Texas: A Partnership Approach to Conservation. (book reviews): An article from: The Geographical Review
Byron D. Augustin
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Saving the Best of Texas: A Partnership Approach to Conservation
Richard C. Barlett
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Saving the Best of Texas: A Partnership Approach to Conservation (Corrie Herring Hooks Series)
Richard C.; Robert L., III Thornton; Sansom, Andrew; Williamson, Leroy Bartlett
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