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Over the course of more than six decades as an author, journalist, and professor, Max Lerner studied and assessed many presidents, yet Thomas Jefferson received his most sustained attention. To Lerner, Jefferson came closest in the American context to Plato's "philosopher-king," the ideal thinker and leader. Because of his keen sense of Jefferson's virtues and his unique place in United States history, Lerner began work on a book about Jefferson in 1957, rewriting it several times throughout his life, always with the intention of introducing general readers to "a thinker and public figure...

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Adam Gordon is a brilliant, if highly unreliable, young American poet on a prestigious fellowship in Madrid, struggling to establish his sense of self and his relationship to art. What is actual when our experiences are mediated by language, technology, medication, and the arts? Is poetry an essential art form, or merely a screen for the reader's projections? Instead of following the dictates of his fellowship, Adam's "research" becomes a meditation on the possibility of the genuine in the arts and beyond: are his relationships with the people he meets in Spain as fraudulent as he fears...

Die Topkea Schule ist die Geschichte einer Familie um die Jahrtausendwende. Die Geschichte einer Mutter, die sich von einem Missbrauch befreien will; eines Vaters, der seine Ehe verrät; eines Sohnes, dem die ganzen Rituale von Männlichkeit suspekt werden und der zunehmend verstummt. Eine Geschichte von Konflikten und Kämpfen und versuchten Versöhnungen.

In einer an Wundern reichen Sprache erzählt Ben Lerner vom drohenden Zusammenbruch privater und öffentlicher Rede und unserer heutigen Gesellschaft - davon, wie es so weit gekommen ist und wo es mit uns hingehen...

He is a composer, arranger and consummate musician. His repertoire of songs - classical, jazz and show times - have delighted audiences for over five decades. His performances have spanned the globe, accompanying some of the greatest artists of the Big Band era and the musical world: Harry James, Tommy Dorsey, Dick Haymes, Glenn Miller, Frankie Laine, Rosemary Clooney, Kay Starr and Pat Boone They've all benefited from the talent of the one world-class pianist and conductor, a man for all occasions, who knows how to entertain. He is Al Lerner. Al Lerner is a musical wonder. For decades,...

Die Lyrik wird heftig denunziert wie keine andere Kunstform sonst. Sogar die Dichter:innen selbst scheinen sie zu missbilligen »Darin, dass sie Lyrik hassen, sind sich viel mehr Menschen einig, als sich darüber einigen können, was Lyrik überhaupt ist.«, schreibt Ben Lerner. »Ich mag sie auch nicht, habe aber mein Leben weitgehend um sie herum organisiert und empfinde das nicht als Widerspruch, weil Gedichte und der Hass auf die Lyrik für mich unentwirrbar miteinander verknüpft sind.« Auf welche Weise sie miteinander verknüpft sind, das wird hier in einem straffen Panorama...

Foundations, Ideas and People: This volume covers the innovators and history of Computer Science in both theoretical developments and practical application of the discipline. Software and Hardware: This volume covers topics from system analysis and design to operating systems and parallel processing.

Social Applications: From fashion design to meteorology, this volume covers how the use of...