Author: Gunter Grass
Publisher: Mariner Books
Keywords: crabwalk
Number of Pages: 252
Published: 2004-04-05
List price: $13.00
ISBN-10: 0156029707
ISBN-13: 9780156029704

Hailed by critics and readers alike as Günter Grass’s best book since The Tin Drum, Crabwalk is an engrossing account of the sinking of the Wilhelm Gustloff and a critical meditation on Germany’s struggle with its wartime memories. The Gustloff, a German cruise ship turned refugee carrier, was attacked by a Soviet submarine in January 1945. Some nine thousand people went down in the Baltic Sea, making it the deadliest maritime disaster of all time. Born to an unwed mother on a lifeboat the night of the attack, Paul Pokriefke is a middle-aged journalist trying to piece together t

Author: Gunter Berghaus
Publisher: Praeger
Keywords: art, prehistoric, perspectives, new
Number of Pages: 280
Published: 2004-04-30
List price: $105.00
ISBN-10: 0275978133
ISBN-13: 9780275978136

Following the discovery of Franco-Caribbean cave art in the nineteenth century, standard interpretations of these works usually revolved around hunting, magic, and fertility cults. Orthodox positions such as these have weighed heavily on later generations of art historians, archaeologists, and anthropologists, even those whose views dissented from those of their predecessors. In the last few decades, however, new approaches to cave art, often based on discoveries made in Africa, Asia, Australia, North America, and the Arctic region, have produced new insights into possible meanings and functio

Author: Günter Wozniak
Publisher: Springer
Keywords: buch, german, vdi, gerã¤te, prinzipien, verfahren, zerstã¤ubungstechnik
Number of Pages: 192
Published: 2002-10-10
List price: $159.00
ISBN-10: 3540411704
ISBN-13: 9783540411703

Das Buch bietet Interessenten aus allen Branchen, die mit den Problemen der Zerstäubungstechnik zu tun haben, ein Grundlagenwerk über Düsenauslegung und Sprays. Darüber hinaus dient es gleichzeitig als Leitfaden zur Auslegung und Analyse von Zerstäubungssystemen. In der angebotenen Literatur existiert ein solches Buch bisher noch nicht.Nach einigen einführenden Bemerkungen zu den wesentlichen Aufgaben und Anwendungen der Zerstäubungstechnik sowie vorbereitenden Grundlagen über Fluideigenschaften, Sprühcharakteristika und Tropfenbildungsphänomene folgen methodenorientierte Kapitel üb

Author: Gunter Meckenstock
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter
Keywords: german, studienbuch, gruyter, wirtschaftsethik
Number of Pages: 415
Published: 1997-06
List price: $52.60
ISBN-10: 3110155591
ISBN-13: 9783110155594

Author: Gunter Grass
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Keywords: drum, tin
Number of Pages: 592
Published: 2009-10-08
List price: $26.00
ISBN-10: 0151014167
ISBN-13: 9780151014163

The Tin Drum, one of the great novels of the twentieth century, was published in Ralph Manheim’s outstanding translation in 1959. It became a runaway bestseller and catapulted its young author to the forefront of world literature. To mark the fiftieth anniversary of the original publication, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, along with Grass’s publishers all over the world, is bringing out a new translation of this classic novel. Breon Mitchell, acclaimed translator and scholar, has drawn from many sources: from a wealth of detailed scholarship; from a wide range of newly-available referenc

Author: Günter Pritschow
Publisher: Springer
Keywords: german, produktion, autonome
Number of Pages: 660
Published: 2003-10-13
List price: $99.00
ISBN-10: 3540005188
ISBN-13: 9783540005186

Kleine Lose wirtschaftlich fertigen – das bedeutet, die Produktionsanlage in möglichst kurzer Zeit auf neue, oft komplexe Bearbeitungsaufgaben umzurüsten. Eine langwierige Optimierung des Prozesses rentiert sich dabei nicht, vielmehr soll das erste produzierte Teil bereits ein Gutteil sein. Erreicht werden kann dies nur, wenn die Maschine (bzw. die Produktionsanlage) über einen langen Zeitraum möglichst störungsfrei arbeitet, Abweichungen selbständig kompensiert und den Werker bei der Einrichtung des Prozesses, bei dessen Überwachung und schließlich bei der Vermeidung und Behebung v

Author: Gunter Grass
Publisher: Mariner Books
Keywords: century
Number of Pages: 288
Published: 2000-11-01
List price: $14.95
ISBN-10: 0156011417
ISBN-13: 9780156011419

In a work of great originality, Germany’s most eminent writer examines the victories and terrors of the twentieth century, a period of astounding change for mankind. Great events and seemingly trivial occurrences, technical developments and scientific achievements, war and disasters, and new beginnings, all unfold to display our century in its glory and grimness. A rich and lively display of Grass’s extraordinary imagination, the 100 interlinked stories in this volume-one for each year from 1900 to 1999-present a historical and social portrait for the millennium, a tale of our time