Migrant Professionals in the City
The migration of professionals is widely seen as a paradigmatic representation and a driver of globalization. The global elite of highly qualified migrants-managers and scientists, for example-are partly defined by their lives' mobility. But their...
Encountering Urban Places
The aesthetics of urban life offer a curious quality, one that is both highly visible and hidden, both openly influencing and subtly imprinting. These aesthetics participate in the production of places; to the way they are built, to their resistin...
Leo Strauss and the Theologico-Political Problem
This book, by one of the most prominent interpreters of Leo Strauss's thought, was the first to address the problem that Leo Strauss himself said was the theme of his studies: the theologico-political problem or the confrontation with the theologi...
Groups, Graphs and Trees
Presenting groups in a formal, abstract algebraic manner is both useful and powerful, yet it avoids a fascinating geometric perspective on group theory - which is also useful and powerful, particularly in the study of infinite groups. This book pr...
Leo Strauss
Leo Strauss
The Employee Advantage
In an ever-shifting work landscape, leaders can no longer ignore their most overlooked stakeholders-their employees. In The Employee Advantage, behavioural economist Stephan Meier explains why organizations must value their employees as much as-if...
Carl Schmitt and Leo Strauss
Carl Schmitt was the most famous and controversial defender of political theology in the twentieth century. But in his best-known work, The Concept of the Political, issued in 1927, 1932, and 1933, political considerations led him to conceal the d...
Giovanni Boccaccio
Giovanni Boccaccio
Chechnya
Andrew's Meier riveting portrait of Chechnya, a land ravaged by indescribable carnage, enables us to understand the origins of this brutal conflict like no other recent work.
Klassik - Romantik
Unter Anführung zahlreicher originaler Textbeispiele führt Albert Meier in ein zentrales Gebiet deutscher Geistesgeschichte ein: 'Klassik' und 'Romantik' - zwei einander ergänzende Stilvarianten der deutschen Poesie um 1800. Er erläutert die Grund...
Atlas der peripheren Regionalanästhesie
Atlas der peripheren Regionalanästhesie
Leo Strauss and the Theologico-Political Problem
Leo Strauss and the Theologico-Political Problem
Caesar
James Boswell called him 'the greatest man of any age'. Christian Meier's biography is the definitive modern account of Caesar's life and career, and places him within the wider context of the crisis of the Roman republic. It is a compelling work ...
Caesar
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Sid Meier's Memoir!
Over his four-decade career, Sid Meier has produced some of the world's most popular video games, including Sid Meier's Civilization, which has sold more than 51 million units worldwide and accumulated more than one billion hours of play. Sid Meie...
Yugoslavia: A History of its Demise
Yugoslavia: A History of its Demise is a new history of the disintegration and collapse of the former Yugoslavia. Commencing with the death of Tito, Meier presents an insider's guide to all the regions of Yugoslavia, including Macedonia, and in pa...
Living Clojure
If you're an experienced programmer looking for a thorough but gentle introduction to Clojure, this is the perfect guide for you. Author Carin Meier not only provides a practical overview of this JVM language and its functional programming concept...
Python GUI Programming Cookbook
Over 90 recipes to help you develop widgets, forms, layouts, charts, and much more using the latest features of Python 3 Key Features Use object-oriented programming to develop impressive GUIs in Python Create interesting charts to visually repres...
