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Towards a General Theory of Translational Action
Skopos Theory Explained
Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2014
This is the first English translation of the seminal book by Katharina Reiß and Hans Vermeer, Grundlegung einer allgemeinen Translationstheorie, first published in 1984. The first part of the book was written by Vermeer and explains the theoretical foundations and basic principles of skopos theory...
9/11 as a Collective Trauma
And Other Essays on Psychoanalysis and Society
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2013
Hans Juergen Wirth, a leading German psychoanalyst and editor of the journal Psychosozial, brings cultural breadth, historical perspective, and analytic astuteness to bear in considering the "collective trauma" of 9/11. His meditation, which brings into its compass the psychic structure...
Replacing SF6 by Pure Water
Shaping the future of high voltage circuit breakers
Language: English
Release Date: January 22, 2013
Replacing SF6 by Pure Water Shaping the future of high voltage circuit breakers. 350 pages. http://hansheyde.wix.com/replacingsf6bywater Invented in 1900 at French Faculty of Pharmacy, University of Paris, SF6 is a gas widely used in the manufacture and maintenance of thousands of high voltage circuit...
by Hans Zizsser
Language: English
Release Date: April 16, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: April 16, 2013
This popular and unusual book by Hans Zinsser, a brilliant physician and researcher, takes an unusual look at history by examining the influence of diseases on society, and will prove a fascinating read for anyone with an interest in biology or medical history.
An Epistemology of the Concrete
Twentieth-Century Histories of Life
Language: English
Release Date: September 6, 2010
An Epistemology of the Concrete brings together case studies and theoretical reflections on the history and epistemology of the life sciences by Hans-Jörg Rheinberger, one of the world’s foremost philosophers of science. In these essays, he examines the history of experiments, concepts, model organisms,...
The Catholic Church
A Short History
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2007
In this extraordinary book, the renowned Hans Kung chronicles the Roman Catholic Church’s role as a world power throughout history. He examines great schisms — between East and West, Catholicism and Protestantism — the evolving role of the papacy and the stories of the great reforming popes;...
The Christian Faith
A Creedal Account
Language: English
Release Date: September 9, 2014
This reader-friendly primer offers a concise yet thorough overview of the Christian faith. Hans Schwarz, one of the major Lutheran theologians of the last half-century, covers the Christian faith from creation to the final fulfillment of life. He gives his account of the major points of Christian...
The Human Being
A Theological Anthropology
Language: English
Release Date: December 20, 2013
This overview of Christian anthropology by Hans Schwarz uniquely emphasizes three things: (1) the biblical testimony, (2) the historical unfolding of Christian anthropology through the centuries, and (3) the present affirmation of Christian anthropology in view of rival options and current scientific...
Immigration at Its Best
Story of a German American Scholar, Born 1933
Language: English
Release Date: November 7, 2017
Hans Dietz was twelve-years-old when the Royal Air Force began relentlessly bombing his homeland of Germany during World War II. Shortly after, the U.S. Army began its dangerous approach. After the war was over, he yearned for a life under different conditions, and one of his mothers relatives in...
The Theology of Martin Luther
A Critical Assessment
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2012
Does Martin Luther have anything to say to us today? Nearly five-hundred years after the beginning of the Reformation, Hans-Martin Barth explores that question in this comprehensive and critical evaluation of Luther’s theology. Rich in its extent and in its many facets, Barth’s didactically well-planned...
by Hans Schneider
Language: English
Release Date: June 21, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: June 21, 2007
Pietism is increasingly recognized as the most important movement in Protestant Christianity since the Reformation of the sixteenth century. Simply put, early Protestant reformers were concerned with reforming the doctrine and beliefs of Christians whereas the Pietiest leaders were concerned with...
True Faith in the True God
An Introduction to Luther's Life and Thought
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2015
Most biographers of Luther are faced with a choice—focus on Luther’s life or focus on his thought. The choice, though real, is false. Luther’s thought was inextricably bound up with his life. In this short, engaging volume, Hans Schwarz succeeds in blending the two—creating a volume that introduces...
The Fairy Tale of My Life
An Autobiography
Language: English
Release Date: September 25, 2000
Danish poet and novelist Hans Christian Andersen (1805-1875) is best known for the dozens of fairy tales he wrote, including "The Little Mermaid," "The Ugly Duckling," and "The Snow Queen." Andersen's sense of fantasy, power of description, and acute sensitivity are strikingly evident in his autobiography....
by Hans Christian Andersen
Language: English
Release Date: January 5, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: January 5, 2010
Hans Christian Andersen had every right to think of his life as a fairy tale. He came from the lowest strata of society in the then little provincial town of Odense, went to Copenhagen at the age of 14, made his own way there and rose to the highest levels of European society as the friend of kings and...