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Zombie Survival
My name is Emma Smith. I was born before it all happened. My mother was a beautiful actress, and my Father was a Combat Veteran. My Mother met him after the war, but she still says the war changed him. He was a survivalist, who was always teaching my brother and I about the end of the world. From the age of three he taught my brother and I how to shoot. He would always take us to the same place in the woods, and teach us how to survive. We learned everything from building shelters, to purifying water, hunting, and how to set snares for food. That was all before the day that everything changed.
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Criminal Justice in the United States
Criminal Justice in the United States is a must have for all of those interested in the study of law in the United States. This book includes case studies on many famous cases, terrorism, gangs, and the basis of criminal law.
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Theorie der Wärme
heit aufgeiaßt werden muß. Dabei werden sich als Resultate von zentraler Be deutung ergeben: Diejenige Größe, welche die ganze Thermodynamik beherrscht, nämlich die Entropie, erweist sich als quantitatives Maß der soeben geschilderten Unkenntnis. Das ist fraglos eine der merkwürdigsten und tiefstliegenden Aus sagen der ganzen Physik. Sie wird natürlich nur sinnvoll durch eine exakte Formulierung, welche erst nach den Vorarbeiten der nächsten Abschnitte erfolgen kann. Ein beherrschender Zug der statistischen Mechanik besteht darin, daß die Zahl der mikroskopischen Freiheitsgrade - im wesentlichen gegeben durch die Zahl N der im System enthaltenen Atome - so ungeheuer groß ist. Obwohl mit wachsendem N unsere Kenntnis von der mikroskopischen Struktur immer geringer wird, werden dennoch die oben angedeuteten Wahrscheinlichkeitsaus sagen über makroskopische Größen um so schärfer, je größer N ist, in dem Sinne, daß wir im Limes N -+ oo wieder zu sicheren Aussagen gelangen. Dieser Zug der Wahrscheinlichkeitsrechnung ist so charakteristisch, daß wir ihn gleich jetzt an einem primitiven Beispiel erläutern wollen. Ein Gas bestehe aus N Molekülen, welche sich unabhängig voneinander in einem Volumen V bewegen (ideales Gas). Wir grenzen innerhalb V ein dagegen kleines Volumen v ab und interessieren uns für die Zahl n der Moleküle, welche sich in v aufhalten. Nennen wir V und 1-p = q, -y=P so sind p bzw. q die Wahrscheinlichkeiten dafür, ein hervorgehobenes Molekül innerhalb bzw. außerhalb v zu finden.
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Taz & Kodak
Unexpected results on unfamiliar ground.
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What's Good
A NEW YORKER & GLOBE AND MAIL BEST BOOK OF THE YEARA love letter to the verbal artistry of hip-hop, What's Good is a work of passionate lyrical analysis"What's Good is, among a great many other things, a byproduct of joyful obsession and immersion into both language and sound, an intersection that offers a rich and expansive land upon which to play." —Hanif Abdurraqib, author of A Little Devil in America: Notes in Praise of Black Performance " . . . an often hilarious, surprisingly moving and always joyful paean to rap’s relationship to words."—Jayson Greene, The New York Times"Rap, he is not afraid to say, is as close to a universal tongue as we have."—Adam Gopnik, The New YorkerWhat's Good is a work of passionate lyrical analysis, a set of freewheeling liner notes, and a love letter to the most vital American art form of the last half century. Over a series of short chapters, each centered on a different lyric, Daniel Levin Becker considers how rap's use of language operates and evolves at levels ranging from the local (slang, rhyme) to the analytical (quotation, transcription) to the philosophical (morality, criticism, irony), celebrating the pleasures and perils of any attempt to decipher its meaning-making technologies.Ranging from Sugarhill Gang to UGK to Young M.A, Rakim to Rick Ross to Rae Sremmurd, Jay-Z to Drake to Snoop Dogg, What's Good reads with the momentum of a deftly curated mixtape, drawing you into the conversation and teaching you to read it as it goes. A book for committed hip-hop heads, curious neophytes, armchair linguists, and everyone in between."For those of us who love rap, What's Good is a gift. The book offers a new set of eyes and ears through which to see and to hear the language of rap. Its brief and brilliant chapters are like the best kinds of freestyles: spontaneous and structured, startling and profound. A remarkable achievement." —Adam Bradley, author of Book of Rhymes: The Poetics of Hip Hop"Could this be the rap equivalent of Lewis Hyde's The Gift or Marina Warner's Once Upon A Time? Anyhow, it's an electrifying book, full of wild epiphanies and provocations, an exhibition of a critical mind in full and open contact with their subject at the highest level, with a winning streak of confessional intimacy as well." —Jonathan Lethem, author of The Arrest: A Novel "What's Good is a feat of critical precision and personal obsession: Daniel Levin Becker's deep appreciation for rap is rangy and illuminating, and his delight in language is infectious. What a thrill to swing so gracefully from Lil Wayne to Mary Ruefle to the lyrical evolution of 'tilapia'; pure pleasure. A generous, joyful exegesis."—Anna Wiener, author of Uncanny Valley: A Memoir
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Character Matters
Former Chief of Staff to President George H.W. Bush and New York Times bestselling author of THE MAN I KNEW, Jean Becker shares touching and pivotal life lessons from a leader that left a mark on people's hearts and souls. As America heads into what promises to be a tumultuous 2024 presidential election year, Character Matters will be a good reminder of the importance of character when defining true leadership. Colleagues, friends, and family will share their often very personal stories of what they learned from watching and listening to President Bush, including former United States Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice; Secretary of State James A. Baker; stand-up comedian Dana Carvey; "Queen of Country" star Reba McEntire; American columnist for The New York Times Maureen Dowd; American novelist Brad Meltzer; presidential biographer Jon Meacham; former Prime Minister of the United Kingdom John Major; former Prime Minister of Canada Brian Mulroney; Secretary of Defense Robert Gates; the Oak Ridge Boys and best-selling author Christopher Buckley; and of course his grandchildren. Character Matters will illustrate how George Bush never stopped showing us the way to lead by example.
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Denial of Death
'It made me rethink the roots of our deepest fears and insecurities, and why we often disappoint ourselves in how we manifest them' Bill Clinton, GuardianWinner of the Pulitzer Prize in 1974 and the culmination of a life's work, The Denial of Death is Ernest Becker's brilliant and impassioned answer to the 'why' of human existence. In bold contrast to the predominant Freudian school of thought, Becker tackles the problem of the vital lie - man's refusal to acknowledge his own mortality. The book argues that human civilisation is a defence against the knowledge that we are mortal beings. Becker states that humans live in both the physical world and a symbolic world of meaning, which is where our 'immortality project' resides. We create in order to become immortal - to become part of something we believe will last forever. In this way we hope to give our lives meaning.In The Denial of Death, Becker sheds new light on the nature of humanity and issues a call to life and its living that still resonates decades after it was written.
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Erzählen über Gesellschaft
Howard S. Becker zählt zu den wichtigsten US-amerikanischen Soziologen der Gegenwart. Sein umfangreiches Werk umspannt weit mehr als ein halbes Jahrhundert und steht in der Tradition der interaktionistischen und interpretativen Soziologie, wie sie an der University of Chicago in den 1920er Jahren begründet wurde. Becker hat nicht nur höchst einflussreiche Schriften u.a. zur soziologischen Methodologie, zur Soziologie der Professionen, des Abweichenden Verhaltens und der Kunst vorgelegt, die allesamt zu Klassikern wurden, sondern gehört auch zu den frühen Pionieren und Wegbereitern der soziologischen Auseinandersetzung mit visuellen und anderen künstlerischen Ausdrucksformen. Der vorliegende Band präsentiert nun zum ersten Mal in deutscher Sprache seine umfassenden vergleichenden Reflexionen dazu, was das soziologische „Erzählen über Gesellschaft“ mit anderen, künstlerischen Erzählformaten gemeinsam hat - und was es davon unterscheidet. Sein leidenschaftliches Plädoyer für eine präzise Soziologie verbindet sich darin disziplinüberschreitend mit einer anregenden Diskussion von künstlerischen Formen der Darstellung gesellschaftlicher Phänomene und den vielfältigen Möglichkeiten, die sich daraus auch für die soziologische Phantasie ergeben, ihre Erzählungen über Gesellschaftliches nicht nur diesseits, sondern vor allem auch jenseits ihrer kanonisierten Formate vorzustellen.
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