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Love and Technology An Ethnography of Dating App Users in Berlin

Love and Technology An Ethnography of Dating App Users in Berlin

Love and Technology: An Ethnography of Dating App Users in Berlin explores how dating apps fit into Berlin’s unique dating culture and brand of intimacy and form a tangible nucleus around which users navigate dating rituals romantic biographies and digitally mediated intimacies within city space. Drawing on the field of digital anthropology this book takes the form of an immersive ethnography resulting from 13 months of fieldwork with young dating app users across Tinder Bumble and OkCupid in Berlin. It argues that dating apps offer or impose depending on their context of use a series of affordances. These affordances and the technological devices they rely upon exist through the relation between users and their environment both in terms of physical spaces and cultural frameworks. The book posits that dating apps are woven into spatial practices and self-narrativisation constituting imagined communities for their users as well as a canvas alongside the city of Berlin against which to characterise romantic experiences. Scholars interested in digital anthropology ethnography dating and regional Berlin will find that Love and Technology offers a vibrant springboard for thinking through both theoretical and methodological concerns. | Love and Technology An Ethnography of Dating App Users in Berlin

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Rem Koolhaas as Scriptwriter OMA Architecture Script for West Berlin

Rem Koolhaas as Scriptwriter OMA Architecture Script for West Berlin

This book is the first survey of a new field in architecture theory: script writing. Rem Koolhaas as Scriptwriter explores the intersection of architecture film and text using the example of the working method of scriptwriter Rem Koolhaas and the Office for Metropolitan Architecture (OMA). This book argues that Koolhaas formulates his approach to architecture on the basis of the “written sketch” or script and questions its transformations into built environment in the oeuvre of OMA. Divided into two parts the first part is a theoretical outline that explores the notion of scriptwriting in film. It provides in-depth insights into the definition and historical evolution of the script - as a blueprint Hollywood script avant-garde script storyboard the relation to auteur theory and the difference between the script and scenario. It surveys the first original script for the Exodus of the Voluntary Prisoners of Architecture. The second part offers a unique perspective on the urban development of West Berlin in which Koolhaas created a metropolitan script or blueprint that spans the period 1971–1989 from his first visit to Berlin to the fall of the Berlin Wall. This book will be of interest to researchers and students of architectural theory urban history and film studies. | Rem Koolhaas as Scriptwriter OMA Architecture Script for West Berlin

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The Toxic Museum Berlin and Beyond

The Toxic Museum Berlin and Beyond

The Toxic Museum examines the use of pesticides in German museum collections at the end of the 19th and early 20th centuries. It reconstructs the research of substances against harmful insects in museum collections within the historical context of the formation of nation-states colonialism a strengthening chemical industry the First World War and the resulting broad-based hygiene movement through the lens of the Ethnologisches Museum (Ethnological Museum) in Berlin. Because of their persistence the consequences of the use of pesticides in museum collections are now unmistakable and well documented in many places. Numerous objects are highly contaminated and are only accessible under difficult conditions regarding occupational health and safety. This creates obstacles for conservation and scientific processing as well as for mediation in the context of exhibitions and external loans. The most precarious and difficult situations arise when contaminated museum objects are repatriated to their countries of origin. This monograph examines contemporary challenges in the 21st century museum landscape and contextualises the history of pesticide use at the turn of the 20th century. The Toxic Museum will be of great interest to students and scholars working in conservation museology monument preservation art and cultural studies ethnology history and economics. | The Toxic Museum Berlin and Beyond

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Property Tenancy and Urban Growth in Stockholm and Berlin 1860 1920

Property Tenancy and Urban Growth in Stockholm and Berlin 1860 1920

From the middle of the nineteenth century most European cities experienced a period of unrivalled growth and development that forever changed not only their physical characteristics but also their social foundations. As the great industrial cites were forced to face the new and unprecedented challenges of rapid urbanisation and increased population they had to rethink many of the concepts on which previous city institutions had been based. One of the most fundamental of these was the role of house ownership and the rights and responsibilities it offered. Exploring the social and political meanings attributed to property - specifically home ownership - this study looks at how these changed during the course of the modern city building process between 1860 and 1920. Focussing on two northern European capital cities Berlin and Stockholm it provides a symmetrical investigation that helps illuminate the competing factors that shaped the shifting nature of cityscapes and urban social structures. | Property Tenancy and Urban Growth in Stockholm and Berlin 1860�1920

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Bringing Cold War Democracy to West Berlin A Shared German–American Project 1940–1972

Bringing Cold War Democracy to West Berlin A Shared German–American Project 1940–1972

Within the span of a generation Nazi Germany’s former capital Berlin found a new role as a symbol of freedom and resilient democracy in the Cold War. This book unearths how this remarkable transformation resulted from a network of liberal American occupation officials and returned émigrés or remigrés of the Marxist Social Democratic Party (SPD). This network derived from lengthy physical and political journeys. After fleeing Hitler German-speaking self-professed revolutionary socialists emphasized anti-totalitarianism in New Deal America and contributed to its intelligence apparatus. These experiences made these remigrés especially adept at cultural translation in postwar Berlin against Stalinism. This book provides a new explanation for the alignment of Germany’s principal left-wing party with the Western camp. While the Cold War has traditionally been analyzed from the perspective of decision makers in Moscow or Washington this study demonstrates the agency of hitherto marginalized on the conflict’s first battlefield. Examining local political culture and social networks underscores how both Berliners and émigrés understood the East-West competition over the rubble that the Nazis left behind as a chance to reinvent themselves as democrats and cultural mediators respectively. As this network popularized an anti-Communist pro-Western Left this book identifies how often ostracized émigrés made a crucial contribution to the Federal Republic of Germany’s democratization. | Bringing Cold War Democracy to West Berlin A Shared German–American Project 1940–1972

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The Warsaw Pact Reconsidered International Relations in Eastern Europe 1955-1969

The Warsaw Pact Reconsidered International Relations in Eastern Europe 1955-1969

The Warsaw Pact is generally regarded as a mere instrument of Soviet power. In the 1960s the alliance nevertheless evolved into a multilateral alliance in which the non-Soviet Warsaw Pact members gained considerable scope for manoeuvre. This book examines to what extent the Warsaw Pact inadvertently provided its members with an opportunity to assert their own interests emancipate themselves from the Soviet grip and influence Soviet bloc policy. Laurien Crump traces this development through six thematic case studies which deal with such well known events as the building of the Berlin Wall the Sino-Soviet Split the Vietnam War the nuclear question and the Prague Spring. By interpreting hitherto neglected archival evidence from archives in Berlin Bucharest and Rome and approaching the Soviet alliance from a radically novel perspective the book offers unexpected insights into international relations in Eastern Europe while shedding new light on a pivotal period in the Cold War. | The Warsaw Pact Reconsidered International Relations in Eastern Europe 1955-1969

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The Rise and Fall of the German Democratic Republic 1945-1990

The Rise and Fall of the German Democratic Republic 1945-1990

This new book investigates communist rule in East Germany from its establishment as a sphere of Soviet influence after World War II to its rapid collapse after the fall of the Berlin Wall. Using newly available archive material the early chapters trace the emergence of the GDR out of the Soviet zone of occupation. Later chapters cover the dramatic episodes of the 1953 uprising against Soviet dominance and the building of the Berlin Wall in 1961. The subsequent stabilisation of the GDR and the establishment of an uneasy compromise between the ruling elites and the population in the later 1960s and 1970s are explained with reference to a range of internal social economic and political factors. The disintegration of the regime in 1989 is explained in the light of : The chronic weakness of Gorbachev's Soviet Union. The bravery of the protestors. The enduring appeal of West Germany's social market economy. Political pluralism. This clear and comprehensive survey marshals secondary and original primary sources in order to give a unique insight into the GDR's struggles and achievements. | The Rise and Fall of the German Democratic Republic 1945-1990

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The Routledge Handbook of German Politics & Culture

The Routledge Handbook of German Politics & Culture

The Routledge Handbook of German Politics and Culture offers a wide-ranging and authoritative account of Germany in the 21st century. It gathers the expertise of internationally leading scholars of German culture politics and society to explore and explain: historical pathways to contemporary Germany the current ‘Berlin Republic’ society and diversity Germany and Europe Germany and the world. This is an essential resource for students researchers and all those looking to understand contemporary German politics and culture. | The Routledge Handbook of German Politics & Culture

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US Foreign Policy and the End of the Cold War in Africa A Bridge between Global Conflict and the New World Order 1988-1994

US Foreign Policy and the End of the Cold War in Africa A Bridge between Global Conflict and the New World Order 1988-1994

This book investigates the end of the Cold War in Africa and its impact on post-Cold War US foreign policy in the continent. The fall of the Berlin Wall is widely considered the end of the Cold War; however it documents just one of the many ends since the Cold War was a global conflict. This book looks at one of the most neglected extra-European battlegrounds the African continent and explores how American foreign policy developed in this region between the late 1980s and the early 1990s. Drawing on a wide range of recently disclosed documents the book shows that the Cold War in Africa ended in 1988 preceding the fall of the Berlin Wall. It also reveals how since then some of the most controversial and inconsistent episodes of post-Cold War US foreign policy in Africa have been deeply rooted in the unique process whereby American rivalry with the USSR found its end in the continent. The book challenges the traditional narrative by presenting an original perspective on the study of the end of the Cold War and provides new insights into the shaping of US foreign policy during the so-called ‘unipolar moment’. This book will be of much interest to students of Cold War history US foreign policy African politics and international relations. | US Foreign Policy and the End of the Cold War in Africa A Bridge between Global Conflict and the New World Order 1988-1994

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Absence and Difficult Knowledge in Contemporary Art Museums

Absence and Difficult Knowledge in Contemporary Art Museums

This book analyzes practices of collecting in European art museums from 1989 to the present arguing that museums actualize absence both consciously and unconsciously while misrepresentation is an outcome of the absent perspectives and voices of minority community members which are rarely considered in relation to contemporary art. Difficult knowledge is proposed as a way of dealing with absence productively. Drawing on social art history museology postcolonial theory and memory studies Margaret Tali analyzes the collections of four modern and contemporary art museums across Europe: the Hamburger Bahnhof in Berlin the Ludwig Museum of Contemporary Art in Budapest the Kiasma Museum in Helsinki and the Kumu Museum in Tallinn. | Absence and Difficult Knowledge in Contemporary Art Museums

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The City Symphony Phenomenon Cinema Art and Urban Modernity Between the Wars

The City Symphony Phenomenon Cinema Art and Urban Modernity Between the Wars

The 1920s and 1930s saw the rise of the city symphony an experimental film form that presented the city as protagonist instead of mere decor. Combining experimental documentary and narrative practices these films were marked by a high level of abstraction reminiscent of high-modernist experiments in painting and photography. Moreover interwar city symphonies presented a highly fragmented oftentimes kaleidoscopic sense of modern life and they organized their urban-industrial images through rhythmic and associative montage that evoke musical structures. In this comprehensive volume contributors consider the full 80 film corpus from Manhatta and Berlin: Die Sinfonie der Grosstadt to lesser-known cinematic explorations. | The City Symphony Phenomenon Cinema Art and Urban Modernity Between the Wars

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Evolutionary Urban Development Lessons from Central and Eastern Europe

Evolutionary Urban Development Lessons from Central and Eastern Europe

Drawing on a range of disciplinary approaches this text explores the drivers of urban development. Through an evolutionary lens cities are shown to find a development path amidst an ever-changing landscape sometimes facing extreme externalities such as wars and economic crises. Key themes covered include urban growth decentralisation path dependence institutional change governance entrepreneurship and culture. Detailed case studies of the history-rich metropolises of Berlin Budapest and Warsaw allow the author to examine the adaptive abilities of cities in flux and draw conclusions with broader international relevance. This text will be valuable reading for advanced students and researchers in urban economics evolutionary economics institutional economics and Central European studies. | Evolutionary Urban Development Lessons from Central and Eastern Europe

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Fire in the Minds of Men Origins of the Revolutionary Faith

Fire in the Minds of Men Origins of the Revolutionary Faith

This book traces the origins of a faith-perhaps the faith of the century. Modern revolutionaries are believers no less committed and intense than were Christians or Muslims of an earlier era. What is new is the belief that a perfect secular order will emerge from forcible overthrow of traditional authority. This inherently implausible idea energized Europe in the nineteenth century and became the most pronounced ideological export of the West to the rest of the world in the twentieth century. Billington is interested in revolutionaries-the innovative creators of a new tradition. His historical frame extends from the waning of the French Revolution in the late eighteenth century to the beginnings of the Russian Revolution in the early twentieth century. The theater was Europe of the industrial era; the main stage was the journalistic offices within great cities such as Paris Berlin London and St. Petersburg. Billington claims with considerable evidence that revolutionary ideologies were shaped as much by the occultism and proto-romanticism of Germany as the critical rationalism of the French Enlightenment. The conversion of social theory to political practice was essentially the work of three Russian revolutions: in 1905 March 1917 and November 1917. Events in the outer rim of the European world brought discussions about revolution out of the school rooms and press rooms of Paris and Berlin into the halls of power. Despite his hard realism about the adverse practical consequences of revolutionary dogma Billington appreciates the identity of its best sponsors people who preached social justice transcending traditional national ethnic and gender boundaries. When this book originally appeared The New Republic hailed it as remarkable learned and lively while The New Yorker noted that Billington pays great attention to the lives and emotions of individuals and this makes his book absorbing. It is an invaluable work of history and contribution to our understanding of political life. | Fire in the Minds of Men Origins of the Revolutionary Faith

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The Economics of Transition Developing and Reforming Emerging Economies

The Economics of Transition Developing and Reforming Emerging Economies

In the last three decades since the fall of the Berlin Wall there has been a vast amount of study looking at transforming the planned economy to a market economy from both theoretical and empirical aspects. This book provides an overview and insight into transition economies in the recent decades and looks at key economics topics from the so-called “transition strategy debate” to environmental reform. The book also includes an analytical review and meta-analysis of the existing literature. By integrating theoretical discussions and synthesizing empirical findings in a systematic manner this book may help to enlighten the debate on the timing speed and policy sequence of economic transition. The book will particularly appeal to researchers policy makers other practitioners and under- and post-graduate students who are interested in transition economies in Eastern Europe the former Soviet Union Southeast Asia and China. It aims to be read as an advanced reader. | The Economics of Transition Developing and Reforming Emerging Economies

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Mediating Post-Socialist Femininities

Mediating Post-Socialist Femininities

Twenty-five years after the fall of the Berlin Wall this collection of essays examines the ways in which popular media re-construct ideas and ideals of femininity in the post-socialist cultural space. The authors explore a comprehensive range of questions including: How have post-socialist women engaged with media as media producers and consumers as well as objects of media representation? What are the consequences of the commodification of femininity in the post-socialist context? How does the female body serve as a battleground for the enactment and renegotiation of gendered identities and ideologies? How can we understand and theorize post-socialist women’s activist movements? In seeking answers to such questions this volume highlights the need to reconsider feminism as a political and theoretical project with many faces. It bridges research on the mediation of post-socialist femininities with broader concerns about the transnational trajectories of feminism today. This book was originally published as a special issue of Feminist Media Studies. | Mediating Post-Socialist Femininities

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Giovanni Gabrieli and His Contemporaries Music Sources and Collections

Giovanni Gabrieli and His Contemporaries Music Sources and Collections

For more than three decades Richard Charteris has researched European music sources and collections focusing particularly on late Renaissance England Germany and Italy. This group of essays many concerning previously unknown or unexplored works and materials covers the 16th and early to mid 17th centuries. The studies involve variously 'new' compositions music manuscripts and editions and documents that relate to figures such as the Italians Giovanni Gabrieli Claudio Monteverdi and Alfonso Ferrabosco the Elder the Germans Hans Leo Hassler and Adam Gumpelzhaimer as well as the Englishmen John Coprario John Dowland John Jenkins Henry Lawes William Lawes Peter Philips and the French composer Marin Marais. In addition Charteris elucidates contemporary performance practice in relation to works by Gabrieli investigates printed music editions that originated from the Church of St Anna Augsburg and evaluates materials in collections inlcuding ones in Berlin Hamburg Krak³w London Regensburg and Warsaw. | Giovanni Gabrieli and His Contemporaries Music Sources and Collections

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The March to Capitalism in the Transition Countries

The March to Capitalism in the Transition Countries

First published in 1998 this book analyses and reconsiders one of the great economic dramas of Western history the march to capitalism in Russia Hungary Poland and the Czech Republic. The period is from 1989 after the fall of the Berlin Wall when the liberated countries rushed headlong into democracy and capitalism. Special emphasis is on the role often misunderstood played by the Western-dominated aid agencies the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank. They were called in while the Western countries dawdled and made empty promises. They basically financed and guided the transition their own funds amounting to $50 billion while issuing free-market strictures in the process. This reflected the supremacy of such ideology in the Thatcher-Reagan era. Russia in its agony offers a laboratory for the conflicting claims of free-market theory against a more pragmatic experimental approach. China's hybrid-capitalism is also analyzed and compared. | The March to Capitalism in the Transition Countries

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Margins for Manoeuvre in Cold War Europe The Influence of Smaller Powers

Margins for Manoeuvre in Cold War Europe The Influence of Smaller Powers

The Cold War is conventionally regarded as a superpower conflict that dominated the shape of international relations between World War II and the fall of the Berlin Wall. Smaller powers had to adapt to a role as pawns in a strategic game of the superpowers its course beyond their control. This edited volume offers a fresh interpretation of twentieth-century smaller European powers – East–West neutral and non-aligned – and argues that their position vis-à-vis the superpowers often provided them with an opportunity rather than merely representing a constraint. Analysing the margins for manoeuvre of these smaller powers the volume covers a wide array of themes ranging from cultural to economic issues energy to diplomacy and Bulgaria to Belgium. Given its holistic and nuanced intervention in studies of the Cold War this book will be instrumental for students of history international relations and political science. | Margins for Manoeuvre in Cold War Europe The Influence of Smaller Powers

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Labels Making Independent Music

Labels Making Independent Music

The music industry is dominated today by three companies. Outside of it thousands of small independent record labels have developed despite the fact that digitalization made record sales barely profitable. How can those outsiders not only survive but thrive within mass music markets? What makes them meaningful and to whom? Dominik Bartmanski and Ian Woodward show how labels act as taste-makers and scene-markers that not only curate music but project cultural values which challenge the mainstream capitalist music industry. Focusing mostly on labels that entered independent electronic music after 2000 the authors reconstruct their aesthetics and ethics. The book draws on multiple interviews with labels such as Ostgut Ton in Berlin Argot in Chicago 100% Silk in Los Angeles Ninja Tune in London and Goma Gringa in Sao Paulo. Written by the authors of Vinyl this book is essential reading for anyone with an interest in the contemporary recording industry independent music material culture anthropology sociology and cultural studies. | Labels Making Independent Music

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A Weberian Analysis of Business Groups and Financial Markets Trade Relations in Taiwan and Korea and some Major Stock Exchanges

A Weberian Analysis of Business Groups and Financial Markets Trade Relations in Taiwan and Korea and some Major Stock Exchanges

Moral economy as a set of rules which regulate market transactions has been the object of much research and debate since the 1980s; it has also been the focus of classical sociological authors such as Weber Simmel and Toennies. Weber in particular examined the rules of the moral economy in the financial markets and this volume sheds light on his contribution to the subject. The book formulates two models of business relations - one oligopolistic model the other based on free competition - which are derived from Weber and Simmel's writings and which represent alternative instances of the moral economy. Empirical case studies in the form of South Korea and Taiwan are included to exemplify the two models and to highlight the consequences of adopting one model over the other. The volume also examines the conduct of actors in some of the leading financial markets with reference to Weber's writings on the 19th century London and Berlin Stock Exchanges. | A Weberian Analysis of Business Groups and Financial Markets Trade Relations in Taiwan and Korea and some Major Stock Exchanges

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The Ottomans 1700-1923 An Empire Besieged

The Ottomans 1700-1923 An Empire Besieged

Originally conceived as a military history this second edition completes the story of the Middle Eastern populations that underwent significant transformation in the nineteenth century finally imploding in communal violence paramilitary activity and genocide after the Berlin Treaty of 1878. Now called The Ottomans 1700-1923: An Empire Besieged the book charts the evolution of a military system in the era of shrinking borders global consciousness financial collapse and revolutionary fervour. The focus of the text is on those who fought defended and finally challenged the sultan and the system leaving long-lasting legacies in the contemporary Middle East. Richly illustrated the text is accompanied by brief portraits of the friends and foes of the Ottoman house. Written by a foremost scholar of the Ottoman Empire and featuring illustrations that have not been seen in print before this second edition is essential reading for both students and scholars of the Ottoman Empire Ottoman society military and political history and Ottoman-European relations. | The Ottomans 1700-1923 An Empire Besieged

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Digital Scenography in Opera in the Twenty-First Century

Digital Scenography in Opera in the Twenty-First Century

Digital Scenography in Opera in the Twenty-First Century is the first definitive study of the use of digital scenography in Western opera production. The book begins by exploring digital scenography’s dramaturgical possibilities and establishes a critical framework for identifying and comparing the use of digital scenography across different digitally enhanced opera productions. The book then investigates the impacts and potential disruptions of digital scenography on opera’s longstanding production conventions both on and off the stage. Drawing on interviews with major industry practitioners including Paul Barritt Mark Grimmer Donald Holder Elaine J. McCarthy Luke Halls Wendall K. Harrington Finn Ross S. Katy Tucker and Victoria ‘Vita’ Tzykun author Caitlin Vincent identifies key correlations between the use of digital scenography in practice and subsequent impacts on creative hierarchies production design processes and organisational management. The book features detailed case studies of digitally enhanced productions premiered by Dutch National Opera Komische Oper Berlin Opéra de Lyon The Royal Opera Covent Garden San Francisco Opera Santa Fe Opera Thétre Royal de la Monnaie The Metropolitan Opera Victorian Opera and Washington National Opera.

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Nazis Women and Molecular Biology

Nazis Women and Molecular Biology

What prompts a well-renowned scientist in molecular biology to write memoirs about a part of his life? In the case of Gunther Stent it was not to reflect on his career as a scientist but to come to an understanding of his own soul. In his seventies he had come to see that he had been throughout his life an emotional sleepwalker especially as regards women and in addition that he had been troubled by Jewish self-hatred. His story may have more to do with St. Augustine's Confessions than with a scientist's memoirs. Stent provides insight into the power of political correctness and the ability of a government to establish a perverse vision of reality. For readers interested in bioethics Stent's memoirs help to explain how Germany could have been the first country to enact an all-encompassing protection for human research subjects while it was also the country that produced the medical experiments of the Nazis and the greatest perversion of medical morality in history. Stent is a person of intelligence and subtlety an accomplished writer a deep and wise man and a loyal friend. His narrative is centered emotionally on a youth spent in Berlin in the Nazi period. As a boy of fourteen he was an eyewitness of the horrors of the Kristallnacht pogrom. On New Year's Eve 1938 he escaped from Germany across the green frontier. He came to America in his teens only to return to Berlin at the end of World War II as a scientific consultant for the U. S. Military. On his return to the States Stent participated in the exciting early scientific breakthroughs of molecular biology that transformed the twentieth-century life sciences. His Nazis Women and Molecular Biology is a piercing self-examination and as its review in Science Newsletter says an act of self-exposure abnegation contrition and expiation. It will be of keen interest to those who have inhabited Stent's worlds or shared his experiences as well as those who wish to learn more about them. Gunther S. Stent is professor emeritus of neurobiology at the University of California Berkeley. He is the author of such classic texts as Molecular Biology of Bacterial Viruses and Molecular Genetics as well as philosophical books such as The Coming of the Golden Age Paradoxes of Progress and most recently (2002) Paradoxes of Free Will.

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