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Format: XIX, 356 S. , zahlr. Ill.

ISBN: 9780754652908

Series Statement: St Andrews studies in Reformation history

Content: "After 1500, as Catholic Europe fragmented into warring sects, evidence of a pagan past came newly into view, and travelers to distant places encountered deeply unfamiliar visual cultures, it became ever more pressing to distinguish between the sacred image and its opposite, the 'idol'. Historians and philosophers have long attended to Reformation charges of idolatry, the premise for image breaking, but only very recently have scholars begun to consider the ways that the idol occasioned the making no less than the destruction of things. The present book focuses on how idols and ideas about them matter for the history of early modern objects produced around the globe, especially those created in the context of an exchange or confrontation between an "us" and a "them."" "Ranging widely within the early modern period, the volume contributes to the project of globalizing the study of European art, bringing the continent's commercial, colonial, antiquarian, and religious histories into dialogue. Its studies of crosses, statues on columns, wax ex-votos, ivories, prints, maps, manuscripts, fountains, banners, and New World gold all frame Western "art" simultaneously as an idea and as a collection of real things, arguing that it was through the idol that object makers and writers came to terms with what it was that art should be, and do."--BOOK JACKET

Language: English

Keywords: Kultgegenstand ; Geschichte 1500-1800 ; Religiöse Kunst ; Reformation ; Geschichte 1500-1800 ; Votivgabe ; Geschichte 1500-1800 ; Bilderstreit ; Geschichte 1400-1700 ; Saenredam, Pieter Jansz 1597-1665 ; Lippi, Filippino 1457-1504 ; Mack, Georg -1601 ; Idololatrie ; Geschichte 1400-1700 ; Votivgabe ; Kunst ; Geschichte 1400-1700 ; Deutschland ; Mariendarstellung ; Geschichte 1400-1700 ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Aufsatzsammlung

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Format: 1 Online-Ressource (XIII, 125 Seiten)

ISBN: 9781137562746

Series Statement: INSEAD Business Press

Note: Softcover reprint of the hardcover 1st edition 2016 978-1-137-56272-2

Additional Edition: Erscheint auch als Druckausgabe ISBN 978-1-137-56272-2

Language: English

Subjects: Economics , Psychology

Keywords: Verhaltensökonomie ; Organisationsverhalten ; Führungstheorie ; Führung ; Märchen ; Führungspsychologie

DOI: 10.1007/978-1-137-56274-6

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Author information: Kets de Vries, Manfred F. R. 1942-

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Format: ix, 463 Seiten , Karten , 24 cm

ISBN: 9781472508614 , 9781472510365

Content: "Why is Eastern Europe still different from Western Europe, more than a quarter-century after the collapse of Communism? A History of Eastern Europe 1918 to the Present shows how the roots of this difference are based in Eastern Europe's tortured 20th century. Eastern Europe emerged in 1918 as the 'lands between', new states whose weakness vis-à-vis Germany and Soviet Russia soon became obvious. The region was the main killing-field of the Second World War, which visited unimaginable horrors on its inhabitants before their 'liberation' by the Soviets in 1945. The imposition of Communist dictatorships on the region, ironically, only deepened Eastern Europe's backwardness. Even in the post-Communist period, its problems continue to make it a fertile breeding-ground for nationalism and political extremism. A History of Eastern Europe 1918 to the Present explores the comparative backwardness of Eastern Europe and how this has driven strategies of modernisation; it looks at the ways in which the region has served as a giant test-tube for political experimentation and, in particular, at the enduring strength of nationalism, which since 1989 has re-emerged more virulent than ever. Complete with a useful chronology, maps and a helpful glossary, this book in the essential textbook for any student of 20th-century Eastern Europe."

Note: Literaturverzeichnis Seite 413-437 , The Making of "Eastern Europe" -- Melting-Pot: Eastern Europe in the First World War -- A New Europe? The Peace Settlement 1918-23 -- Problems of the Interwar Period -- Test-Tube of Ideologies: Communism -- Test-Tube of Ideologies: Conservative Authoritarianism -- Test-Tube of Ideologies: Fascism -- The East European Origins of the Second World War -- Hell's Kitchen: Eastern Europe in the Second World War -- War as Revolution: Political Consequences of the Second World War -- Great Leap Backwards: The Imposition of Communism 1944-48 -- National Communism vs. Stalinism -- The Perils of De-Stalinisation: Poland and Hungary in 1956 -- Last-Chance Saloon? The Prague Spring of -- Absurdistan, or 'Real Existing Socialism' 1968-1980s -- The Solidarity Phenomenon in Poland 1980-89 -- The Bear Vanishes: Gorbachev and the Roots of Revolution 1985-89 -- The Power of the Powerless: The Velvet Revolutions of 1989 -- The Wages of Nationalism: Soviet, Yugoslav and Czech-Slovak Break-Up -- Eastern Europe in the 21st Century: Post-Communist Modernisation -- Eastern Europe in the 21st Century: Nationalism and Geopolitics -- Conclusion: Retirement of a Concept?

Additional Edition: Erscheint auch als Online-Ausgabe, PDF ISBN 978-1-4725-1197-3

Additional Edition: Erscheint auch als Online-Ausgabe ISBN 978-1-4725-0865-2

Former: Fortsetzung von Armour, Ian D. A history of Eastern Europe 1740-1918

Language: English

Subjects: History , Slavic Studies

Keywords: Osteuropa ; Politik ; Nationalismus ; Geschichte 1918-2020 ; Historische Darstellung

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URL: Klappentext

URL: Register // Gemischte Register

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Format: XXVIII, 369 S.

ISBN: 0195037804

Content: Is antisemitism on the rise in America? A glance at the daily newspapers suggests a resurgence of animosity yet Leonard Dinnerstein, in this provocative and in-depth study, categorically states that there is less bigotry in this country than ever before. He also argues in this provocative analysis that Jews have never been more at home in America. What we are seeing today, he writes, is media hype. A long tradition of prejudice, suspicion, and hatred against the Jews, the direct product of Christian teachings, has, in fact, finally begun to wane. In Antisemitism in America, Dinnerstein provides a landmark work - the first comprehensive history of prejudice against Jews in the United States, ranging from its foundations in European Christian culture to the present day

Content: Dinnerstein's richly detailed and thoroughly documented book reveals how Christians carried their religious prejudices with them to the New World and how they manifested themselves, albeit in muted form, in the colonial wilderness and in the developing American society thereafter. Jews could not vote, for example, in Rhode Island or New Hampshire until 1842, and in North Carolina until 1868. The Civil War witnessed the first major wave of publicly displayed American antisemitism as individuals in both the North and the South assumed that Jews sided with the enemy. The decades that followed marked the emergence of a full-fledged antisemitic society as Christians excluded Jews from their social circles and wove fantasies for themselves as they pictured what "Jews were really like." Antisemitic fervor mixed with racism at the beginning of the twentieth century, accelerated by the views of eugenicists, fears of Bolshevism, and the rantings of Henry Ford

Content: During the Depression hostility toward Jews accelerated as Americans vented their frustrations upon minorities because of the economic crises of the decade. Christians of all stripes called upon Jews to accept the divinity of Jesus Christ, and Father Charles Coughlin emerged as one of the most beloved priests in all of American history as he excoriated Jews and sympathized with Nazis over the airwaves and in his journal, Social Justice. Ironically, Dinnerstein writes, as Americans fought in World War II to make the world safe for democracy, public opinion polls noted a huge increase in American animosity toward Jews. Not until after the war ended did this enmity subside. While fresh economic opportunities and, heightened sensitivities to the effects of bigotry resulted in the decline of all prejudices in this country, including antisemitism, it nevertheless still cropped up in the highest ranks of government. especially during Richard Nixon's presidency

Language: English

Subjects: History

Keywords: USA ; Antisemitismus ; Geschichte 1607-1992 ; Gesellschaft ; Ethnische Gruppe ; Geschichte ; Historische Darstellung

URL: Inhaltsverzeichnis

URL: http://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0724/93031187-b.html

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Format: X, 261 Seite , Ill.

ISBN: 0691086672

Uniform Title: Sąsiedzi

Content: One summer day in 1941, half of the Polish town of Jedwabne murdered the other half, 1,600 men, women, and children, all but seven of the town's Jews. Neighbors tells their story. Jan Gross pieces together eyewitness accounts and other evidence into a reconstruction of the horrific July day remembered well by locals but forgotten by history. His investigation reads like a detective story, and its unfolding yields wider truths about Jewish-Polish relations, the Holocaust, and human responses to occupation and totalitarianism. It is a story of surprises: The newly occupying German army did not compel the massacre, and Jedwabne's Jews and Christians had previously enjoyed cordial relations. After the war, the nearby family who saved Jedwabne's surviving Jews was derided and driven from the area. The single Jew offered mercy by the town declined it. Most arresting is the sinking realization that Jedwabne's Jews were clubbed, drowned, gutted, and burned not by faceless Nazis, but by people whose features and names they knew well: their former schoolmates and those who sold them food, bought their milk, and chatted with them in the street. As much as such a question can ever be answered, Neighbors tells us why.

Note: Originally published: Sasiedzi. historia zagłady żydowskiego miasteczka , Aus dem Poln. übers.

Additional Edition: Übersetzt als Gross, Jan Tomasz, 1947- Nachbarn

Additional Edition: Übersetzung von Gross, Jan Tomasz, 1947- Sąsiedzi

Language: English

Subjects: History

Keywords: Jedwabne ; Judenvernichtung ; Geschichte 1941 ; Jedwabne ; Pogrom ; Juden ; Geschichte 1941

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URL: Table of contents

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Author information: Gross, Jan Tomasz 1947-

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Format: xxv, 814 Seiten , Illustrationen , 26 cm

ISBN: 9780199945726

Content: Japanese philosophy is now a flourishing field with thriving societies, journals, and conferences dedicated to it around the world, made possible by an ever-increasing library of translations, books, and articles. The Oxford Handbook of Japanese Philosophy is a foundation-laying reference work that covers, in detail and depth, the entire span of this philosophical tradition, from ancient times to the present. It introduces and examines the most important topics, figures, schools, and texts from the history of philosophical thinking in premodern and modern Japan. Each chapter, written by a leading scholar in the field, clearly elucidates and critically engages with its topic in a manner that demonstrates its contemporary philosophical relevance. 0The Handbook opens with an extensive introductory chapter that addresses the multifaceted question, "What is Japanese Philosophy?" The first fourteen chapters cover the premodern history of Japanese philosophy, with sections dedicated to Shinto and the Synthetic Nature of Japanese Philosophical Thought, Philosophies of Japanese Buddhism, and Philosophies of Japanese Confucianism and Bushido. Next, seventeen chapters are devoted to Modern Japanese Philosophies. After a chapter on the initial encounter with and appropriation of Western philosophy in the late nineteenth-century, this large section is divided into one subsection on the most well-known group of twentieth-century Japanese philosophers, The Kyoto School, and a second subsection on the no less significant array of Other Modern Japanese Philosophies. Rounding out the volume is a section on Pervasive Topics in Japanese Philosophical Thought, which covers areas such as philosophy of language, philosophy of nature, ethics, and aesthetics, spanning a range of schools and time periods

Note: Includes bibliographical references and index

Additional Edition: Erscheint auch als Online-Ausgabe ISBN 9780190206949

Language: English

Subjects: Philosophy

Keywords: Japan ; Philosophie ; Geschichte ; Aufsatzsammlung

URL: Inhaltsverzeichnis

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Format: xxvii, 267 Seiten , Diagramme

ISBN: 9781633697621

Content: The age of AI: artificial intelligence is transforming the way firms function and restructuring the economy -- Rethinking the firm: how software, networks, and AI are changing the fundamental nature of companies-the way they operate and compete -- The AI factory: the core of the new firm is a scalable decision factory, powered by software, data, and algorithms -- Rearchitecting the firm: to use the full power of digital networks and AI, firms need a fundamentally different operating architecture -- Becoming an AI company: how to transform and rearchitect the firm to leverage the power of data, networks, and artificial intelligence -- Strategy for a new age: digital firms enable and require a new approach to strategy -- Strategic collisions: what happens when digital firms compete ("collide") with traditional firms -- The ethics of digital scale, scope and learning: the ethical challenges generated by the transformation of the nature of firms -- The new meta: how the age of AI is changing the "rules of the game," with fundamental implications for all of us -- A leadership mandate: the age of AI is defining a new set of challenges for leaders of digital firms, traditional organizations, startups, regulatory institution, and communities.

Content: "In industry after industry, data, analytics, and AI-driven processes are transforming the nature of work. While we often still treat AI as the domain of a specific skill, business function, or sector, we have entered a new era in which AI is challenging the very concept of the firm. AI-centric organizations exhibit a new operating architecture, redefining how they create, capture, share, and deliver value. Marco Iansiti and Karim R. Lakhani show how reinventing the firm around data, analytics, and AI removes traditional constraints on scale, scope, and learning that have constrained business growth for hundreds of years. From Airbnb to Ant Financial, Microsoft to Amazon, research shows how AI-driven processes are vastly more scalable than traditional processes, drive massive scope increase, enabling companies to straddle industry boundaries, and enable powerful opportunities for learning--to drive ever more accurate, complex, and sophisticated predictions. When traditional operating constraints are removed, strategy becomes a whole new game, one whose rules and likely outcomes this book will make clear. Iansiti and Lakhani: Present a framework for rethinking business and operating models Explain how "collisions" between AI-driven/digital and traditional/analog firms are reshaping competition and altering the structure of our economy Show how these collisions force traditional companies to change their operating models to drive scale, scope, and learning Explain the risks involved in operating model transformation and how to overcome them Describe the new challenges and responsibilities for the leaders of these firms Packed with examples--including the most powerful and innovative global, AI-driven competitors--and based on research in hundreds of firms across many sectors, this is the essential guide for rethinking how your firm competes and operates in the era of++

Language: English

Subjects: Computer Science , Economics

Keywords: Künstliche Intelligenz ; Strategisches Management ; Digitale Revolution ; Management

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Format: 1 Online-Ressource (V, 177 S.) , Ill., graph. Darst.

ISBN: 9783110206616

Note: "The first instance of pre-computer fractals was noted by the French mathematician Gaston Julia. He wondered what a complex polynomial function would look like, such as the ones named after him (in the form of z2 + c, where c is a complex constant with real and imaginary parts). The idea behind this formula is that one takes the x and y coordinates of a point z, and plug them into z in the form of x + i*y, where i is the square root of -1, square this number, and then add c, a constant. Then plug the resulting pair of real and imaginary numbers back into z, run the operation again, and keep doing that until the result is greater than some number. The number of times you have to run the equations to get out of an 'orbit' not specified here can be assigned a colour and then the pixel (x,y) gets turned that colour, unless those coordinates can't get out of their orbit, in which case they are made black. Later it was Benoit Mandelbrot who used computers to produce fractals. A basic property of fractals is that they contain a large degree of self similarity, i.e., they usually contain little copies within the original, and these copies also have infinite detail. That means the more you zoom in on a fractal, the more detail you get, and this keeps going on forever and ever. The well-written book 'Getting acquainted with fractals' by Gilbert Helmberg provides a mathematically oriented introduction to fractals, with a focus upon three types of fractals: fractals of curves, attractors for iterative function systems in the plane, and Julia sets. The presentation is on an undergraduate level, with an ample presentation of the corresponding mathematical background, e.g., linear algebra, calculus, algebra, geometry, topology, measure theory and complex analysis. The book contains over 170 color illustrations."

Additional Edition: Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe ISBN 978-3-11-019092-2

Language: English

Subjects: Mathematics

Keywords: Fraktal

DOI: 10.1515/9783110190922

URL: Volltext  (URL des Erstveröffentlichers)

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Author information: Helmberg, Gilbert 1928-

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Format: 261 S.

ISBN: 0330325515

Series Statement: Picador

Language: Undetermined

Subjects: English Studies

Author information: Swift, Graham 1949-

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Format: IX, 350 S. , Ill., graph. Darst., Portr. , 24 cm

ISBN: 0195168747

Content: "The greatest technical discontinuity in history took place between 1867 and 1914. This era was distinguished by the most extraordinary concatenation of a large number of scientific and technical advances the synergy of which produced bold and imaginative innovations as well as ingenious improvements of older ideas, by the rapidity with which these innovations were improved after their introduction, by their prompt commercial adoption and widespread diffusion, and by the extent of the resulting socio-economic impacts." "Most of these innovations were greatly improved by subsequent research and development and some were superseded - but no post-WWI period ever equaled the epoch-making impact of pre-1914 technical advances that created the very foundations of modern civilization. This interdisciplinary book systematically traces and explains the genesis, evolution and lasting consequences of this great technical saltation."--BOOK JACKET.

Note: Fortsetzung bildet: Smil, Vaclav: Transforming the twentieth century

Language: English

Subjects: Engineering

Keywords: Technischer Fortschritt ; Geschichte 1867-1914 ; Technik ; Erfindung ; Geschichte 1867-1914

URL: Inhaltsverzeichnis

URL: Verlagsangaben

URL: Autorenbiografie

URL: http://www.h-net.org/reviews/showrev.php?id=20983

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