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Stern
Well before Philip Roth in Portnoy's Complaint turned the special predicament of the American Jew into a long psychiatric joke, Friedman told the original story and got the first laugh. Stern is the story of a Jewish family displaced from the city to the suburbs, and more particularly, of the mild-mannered Every'man of the title, under siege in his new home, set upon by voracious caterpillars as well as shades of bigotry that range from the genteel snub to outright anti-Semitism. With masterly procrastination, Stern sets out to avenge one such incident at the hands of a beer-drinking neighbor. Balefully funny, darkly antic, the genius of Bruce Jay Friedman lies in weaving a light but durable web of laughter over the abyss of contemporary American life. Originally published in 1962, Stern is a high comedy of enduring relevance.
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Sterne
Viele Zweige der Physik wie Gravitation, Thermodynamik, Atomphysik und Kernphysik tragen zur Bestimmung des inneren Aufbaus der Sterne bei. Die physikalischen Bedingungen sind in Sternen extremer als auf der Erde. Eine erfolgreiche Erforschung ihres Aufbaus sollte zeigen, in- wieweit man die auf der Erde erprobten physikalischen Gesetze auf diese Bedingungen extrapolieren kann. Ein beachtlicher Fortschritt konnte bei der Erklarung der beobachteten Eigenschaften der Sterne bereits erzielt werden, viele Beobachtungen kannen aber noch nicht vollstandig gedeutet werden. Ein Hauptanliegen dieses Buches ist es, den Leser in ein sich entwickelndes Gebiet einzu- fuhren und dabei die Unsicherheiten gegenwartiger Theorien ent- sprechend herauszustellen. AuBer in einigen Sonderfallen, wie beispielsweise bei den Einheiten Parsec und Elektronenvolt, werden alle numerischen GraBen in SI- Einheiten angegeben. Eine Liste der wichtigeren in diesem Buch be- nutzten Symbole und ein Verzeichnis der numerischen Werte physika- lischer Konstanten (mit der benatigten Genauigkeit) findet man auf den nachfolgenden Seiten. Da dies vermutlich das erste astronomische Buch ist, das SI-Einheiten benutzt, muB sich der Leser darauf einstellen, in anderer Literatur c.g.s.-Einheiten anzutreffen. Viele Autoren haben zu unserem gegenwartigen Wissensstand in der Sternentwicklung, beigetragen, es erscheinen aber nur wenige Namen im Text, da es unmaglich ist, entsprechende Erwahnungen bei jedem Beitrag zum Gegenstand in einem Buch dieses Umfangs anzubringen.
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Isaac Stern
There is no more beloved musician in the classical world than Isaac Stern, revered not only as a great violinist but also as a generous personality and a crucial figure in the world of the arts. One of the few people who has known every major classical musician of the last two-thirds of the twentieth century, he shares his personal and artistic experiences in this warm, passionate account of his life: the story of his rise to eminence his feelings about music and the violin and his great friendships and collaborations with colleagues such as Leonard Bernstein and Pablo Casals. Stern the man, the musician, and the cultural institution come alive in the most readable and revealing musical autobiography of the decade.
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Howard Stern
This revealing look at the life and career of Howard Stern examines his role as a champion of free speech and his amazing success at bringing his own unique brand of "reality" radio to the airwaves.First Amendment rights, particularly freedom of speech, play an integral part in all modern means of communication. Howard Stern has tested the limits and pushed the boundaries of freedom of speech to the delight of some and the disgust of others. Howard Stern: A Biography explores this long-debated topic and sheds light on how one media star has made a significant difference.Offering an engaging and insightful look at the life and career of radio's leading Shock Jock, the book explores Stern's youth, his first forays into radio, and his desire to move up in a competitive medium. Of course, it also covers his battles with the Federal Communications Commission, how he was finally able to sidestep the censors, and the significant changes the battle brought about in what is deemed acceptable on radio.Includes a timeline of the key events in the life of Howard SternPresents photographs of Stern at key moments in his career
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Henriette J. A. Stern
This memoir is a testament to the immigrant experience of Eastern European Jews and their miraculous integration and contribution to the American Dream. It spans the cultural and technological divide between tenement outhouse to CAT Scans and includes first-hand accounts of the 1904 General Slocum Steamboat and 1937 Hindenburg disasters. It's a compelling tribute to strong women in the person of Henriette and her mother. A mother and daughter who raised a family of seven without a male breadwinner. It's the story of a matriarch who was deservedly worshiped by her husband and son. And finally, it's a story of rags to riches and the unlimited possibility that was 20th Century America.
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Sterns Are Listening
Benjamin and Dita Stern are New Yorkers through and through. Living in the pre-war, Upper East Side building Benjamin's grandfather built, with two children no longer at home and professional lives never fully realized, perhaps being New Yorkers is the most that the Sterns will ever be. But Benjamin's younger brother Spence, founder and CEO of hearing aid company Belphonics, has an idea for a new product line that comes from the brothers' shared history of rock and roll and CBGB's, the club that they visited often in their youths, and where, Spence believes, his hearing was permanently damaged. In proposing that Benjamin join him in the new venture, Spence also hopes that it might salvage Benjamin's and Dita's tenuous financial position. However, they both know that getting involved in Spence's schemes often comes at a high price. That same evening the Sterns have their daughter Alessandra over for dinner, only for the news of Benjamin's potential new job to be upstaged by the appearance of their other child, seventeen-year-old Giorgio, whose violent adolescent behavior resulted in his being sent away for most of high school. Now seventeen, he steps through their front door without warning, a still very troubled young man. As Benjamin and Dita find themselves reckoning with the choices they have made, a sudden shift in perspective offers Giorgio's voice, whose declaration that his name is not, in fact, Giorgio, sparks the retelling of his troubled past--one for whom all the Sterns must come to share some measure of responsibility. A debut novel from poet and memoirist Jonathan Wells, The Sterns Are Listening explores a family on the verge of both collapse and regeneration. Brimming with affection and humor for its characters, it nevertheless traces a courageous path to the deeply uncomfortable heart of the matter, one that might just give the Stern family a shot at redemption.
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Sterne, Tristram, Yorick
Sterne, Tristram, Yorick: Tercentenary Essays on Laurence Sterne derives from the Laurence Sterne Tercentenary Conference held at Royal Holloway, University of London, on July 8–11, 2013. It was attended by some eighty scholars from fourteen countries; the conference heard more than sixty papers. The organizers invited participants to submit revised versions of their contributions for this volume, and the thirteen selected exhibit, it is hoped, the defining features both of the conference and of Sterne studies at the beginning of the twenty-first century. It is worth remarking that the selected authors represent seven countries; that Sterne may well be the most internationally accepted of all eighteenth-century English authors is certainly a claim worthy of a sentimental traveler.This collection recognizes three faces of Sterne, beginning with several biographical essays examining, respectively, his celebrity status, family life, politics, and philosophy. The second face is that of Tristram, studied from vantage points provided by ethics, linguistics, gender studies, and comparative literature. The final group of essays examines the face of Yorick as the protagonist of A Sentimental Journey, beginning with an ethnographic study of relationships, moving through questions of identity, and concluding with the possible future of literary studies—a return to aesthetics.
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Otto Sterns gesammelte Briefe – Band 3
In diesem mehrbändigen Werk finden sich die Briefwechsel des bedeutenden Physikers und Nobelpreisträgers Otto Stern (1888–1969). Das Besondere an dieser Sammlung ist, dass die einzelnen Bände nicht streng chronologisch, sondern nach Themen und Personen angeordnet sind, um je einen Themenschwerpunkt im Leben Sterns im Zusammenhang vorzustellen. Erklärende Texte zwischen den Briefen ermöglichen ein tieferes Verständnis der wissenschaftlichen und historischen Zusammenhänge. Das Werk richtet sich damit nicht nur an Wissenschaftshistoriker, sondern an alle interessierten Leser, die mehr über Otto Stern und sein Wirken erfahren möchten.Im vorliegenden dritten Band werden im Wesentlichen seine Briefe nach seiner Emeritierung im Jahre 1945 vorgestellt. Aus der Zeit davor werden noch einige dienstliche Briefe mit Universitätsverwaltungen, seine Konferenzbesuche betreffend, aufgeführt. Die Darstellung der Briefe in diesem Band erfolgt in chronologischer Reihenfolge und zeigt eine wichtige Seite des Menschen Otto Stern.Sie belegen seine rege Teilnahme an nationalen und internationalen wissenschaftlichen Veranstaltungen und Konferenzen und zeigen Sterns große internationale Bedeutung bei der Entstehung der modernen Quantenphysik. Viele Briefe aus der Nachkriegszeit dokumentieren seine zahlreichen und langen Gastaufenthalte in der von ihm geliebten Schweiz. Der Briefwechsel der letzten Jahre seines Lebens stellt ein schrittweises Abschiednehmen dar, das gekennzeichnet ist durch den weiterhin gepflegten lebenslangen Kontakt zu bestimmten Personen, einigen Kollegen, Freunden und Verwandten. Mit diesem Werk soll an den herausragenden Physiker und Menschen Otto Stern erinnert werden, der mit seinen genialen Experimentierverfahren Vater des Stern-Gerlach-Experiments war und zusammen mit Walther Gerlach dieses in genialer Weise durchführte. Dies war ein Meilenstein für die Entwicklung der modernen Quantenphysik.
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Norman Mailer. Bert Stern. Marilyn Monroe
“This book is really two books. It is a biography, and it is also a pictorial retrospective of an actress whose greatest love affair was conceivably with the camera,” wrote Norman Mailer in his 1973 biography, Marilyn.Now TASCHEN has paired Mailer’s original text with Bert Stern’s photographs from the legendary Last Sitting—widely considered the most intimate photographs of Monroe ever taken—to create a fitting tribute to the woman who, at the time of her death in 1962, was the world’s most famous, a symbol of glamour and eroticism for an entire generation. But though she was feted and adored by her public, her private life was that of a little girl lost, desperate to find love and security. Mailer’s Marilyn is beautiful, tragic, and complex. As Mailer reflects upon her life—from her bleak childhood through to the mysterious circumstances of her death—she emerges as a symbol of the bizarre decade during which she reigned as Hollywood’s greatest female star.This book, conceived by Lawrence Schiller, Mailer’s collaborator on five works, combines the author’s masterful text with Stern’s penetrating images of the 36-year-old Marilyn. Photographed for Vogue magazine over three days at the Bel-Air Hotel, Marilyn had never allowed such unfettered access, nor had she looked so breathtakingly beautiful. Six weeks later, mysteriously, she was dead. In this bold synthesis of literary classic and legendary portrait-sitting, Mailer and Stern lift the veils of confusion surrounding Monroe—the woman, the star, the sex symbol—and offer profound insight into an iconic figure whose true personality remains an enigma even today.
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Private Parts
The #1 bestseller and fastest selling autobiography of all time, Private Parts is Howard Stern's story from the man himself.In Private Parts Stern spills his life story, from his dysfunctional beginnings to his unlikely, turbulent rise to superstardom. In the process, he shares his views on everything from foreign policy to fatherhood and Madonna to masturbation, with lots of lesbians in between.
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In the Days of Simon Stern
Nathan, a blind Jewish scribe, tells the story of the coming of the Messiah in the person of one Simon Stern--from his birth on the Lower East Side, through his career as a millionaire dealer in real estate, to his building of a refuge for the Jewish remnant of World War II. A majestic work of fiction that should stand world literature's test of time, to be read and reread. A masterpiece.--Commonweal This book ensnares one of the most extraordinarily daring ideas to inhabit an American novel in a number of years. For one thing, it is that risky devising, dreamed of only by the Thomas Manns of the world, a serious and vastly conceived fiction bled out of the theological imagination. For another, it is clearly an 'American' novel--altogether American, despite its Jewish particularity: it is not so much about the history of the Jews as it is about the idea of the New World as haven. . . . In its teeming particularity every vein of this book runs with a brilliance of Jewish insight and erudition to be found in no other novelist. Arthur Cohen is the first writer of any American generation to compose a profoundly Jewish fiction on a profoundly Western theme.--Cynthia Ozick, New York Times Book Review This stately, ambitious amalgam of Jewish myth, history, theology, and speculations on the Jewish soul is like an enormous Judaic archeological ruin--often hard for the uninitiated to interpret, but impressive. . . . Intelligent, inventive, fascinating.--New Yorker
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Biography of the Rev. Henry Aaron Stern, D.D.
Henry Aaron Stern (1820–85), of German Jewish birth, moved to London in 1839, converted to Christianity and became a lifelong missionary for the London Society for Promoting Christianity amongst the Jews. With his wife he preached in Palestine, Babylon, Constantinople, Baghdad, Persia, and to the Karaite Jews of the Crimea. Famously, in 1863, he was caught in a diplomatic dispute in Ethiopia that led to his imprisonment and eventual rescue, five years later, by a British military force. Stern was made a doctor of divinity in 1881. He wrote three memoirs, which were drawn on by Albert Augustus Isaacs (1826–1903), a vicar at Leicester who knew Stern personally. Isaacs's biography, first published in 1886, is hagiographic and written with religiosity. Nonetheless, it includes informative accounts of missionary work among Jewish communities, and remains a valuable source on the orientalism of Victorian Britain.
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Otto Sterns Veröffentlichungen – Band 5
In diesem fünfbändigen Werk finden sich alle Veröffentlichungen des bedeutenden Physikers und Nobelpreisträgers Otto Stern. Mit seinen genialen Experimentierverfahren war Otto Stern einer der Entdecker des Stern-Gerlach-Experiments und leistete somit einen Meilenstein für die Entwicklung der modernen Quantenphysik. Mit seinen Publikationen, welche unter anderem die innere Struktur von Elementarteilchen, die Bestimmung der de Broglie-Impuls-Wellenlänge und den Recoil-Rückstoß bei Photonenabsorption von Atomen behandeln, erwies er sich als Pionier der Kern- und Elementarteilchenphysik und lieferte die Grundlagen für Kernspintomographie, Laser und Atomuhr. Dieses Werk soll an die Frühzeit der Quantenphysik und den herausragenden Physiker erinnern.
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Sterne, the Moderns, and the Novel
The author of "Tristram Shandy" (1759-67) is often seen as an anachronism - a belated exponent of learned-wit satire whose kinship is with Montaigne, or a proto-modernist whose narrative pyrotechnics anticipate Joyce. Yet to many contemporaries Sterne's writing was emphatically of its immediate time, a voguish compound of all things modern that seemed to typify, if not indeed constitute, a "Shandy-age" In this historicizing study, Thomas Keymer demonstrates the self-conscious imbrication of "Tristram Shandy" in the diverse literary culture of its extended moment. Not only absorbing, but also updating Swift's "Tale of a Tub", Sterne's text turns the satirical resources of Scriblerian writing on the post-Scriblerian literary marketplace, and above all on that quintessentially modern genre, the novel itself. For all its anticipation of later trends, his play on narrative representation, linguistic indeterminacy, the unruliness of reading and the materiality of text turns out to be firmly grounded in the conventions and tropes of mid-18th-century fiction.
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Sterne und Atome
Dieser Buchtitel ist Teil des Digitalisierungsprojekts Springer Book Archives mit Publikationen, die seit den Anfängen des Verlags von 1842 erschienen sind. Der Verlag stellt mit diesem Archiv Quellen für die historische wie auch die disziplingeschichtliche Forschung zur Verfügung, die jeweils im historischen Kontext betrachtet werden müssen. Dieser Titel erschien in der Zeit vor 1945 und wird daher in seiner zeittypischen politisch-ideologischen Ausrichtung vom Verlag nicht beworben.
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Otto Sterns Veröffentlichungen – Band 3
In diesem fünfbändigen Werk finden sich alle Veröffentlichungen des bedeutenden Physikers und Nobelpreisträgers Otto Stern. Mit seinen genialen Experimentierverfahren war Otto Stern einer der Entdecker des Stern-Gerlach-Experiments und leistete somit einen Meilenstein für die Entwicklung der modernen Quantenphysik. Mit seinen Publikationen, welche unter anderem die innere Struktur von Elementarteilchen, die Bestimmung der de Broglie-Impuls-Wellenlänge und den Recoil-Rückstoß bei Photonenabsorption von Atomen behandeln, erwies er sich als Pionier der Kern- und Elementarteilchenphysik und lieferte die Grundlagen für Kernspintomographie, Laser und Atomuhr. Dieses Werk soll an die Frühzeit der Quantenphysik und den herausragenden Physiker erinnern.
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Sterne
Lawrence Sterne (1713–69) was an Anglican clergyman best remembered as the author of the satirical and highly influential novel The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman. After his ordination in 1738, Sterne led the life of a country vicar in Yorkshire, publishing a few satirical works before his masterpiece, which emerged in nine volumes between 1759 and 1767. The first two volumes were an immediate success, bringing him wealth, fame, and a place at the heart of contemporary English literary society. This work, published in the first series of English Men of Letters in 1882 by the journalist (and editor of Carlyle) Henry Duff Traill (1842–1900), provides a clear and informative biography. Drawing on Sterne's detailed letters to his daughter, Traill provides a fascinating account of Sterne's early life and his clerical career together with an analysis of his writing and influence upon English literature.
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