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In the current atmosphere of controversy about modes of interpreting literature, historical influences in science, and subtle ideologies in social theory, Abraham Edel confronts the institutionalized separation of the humanities and the sciences, the segregation of disciplines through structures that rest on entrenched dualisms, and the isolations reenforced by habits of the academy and its struggles over turf. Edel's "search for connections" - carried out not only theoretically but through a series of particular studies spanning major disciplines from philosophy and social theory to...

"He was a supreme artist in the intimacies and connections that bind people together or tear them apart," says Leon Edel in his introduction to this collection of Henry James's best letters. Edel has chosen, from the four-volume epistolarium already published, those letters which especially illuminate James's writing, his life, his thoughts and fancies, his literary theories, and his most meaningful friendships. In addition, there are two dozen letters that have never before been printed.

In its unity, its elegance, and its reflection of almost a century of Anglo-American life and...

Risse in Bauteilen begrenzen die Nutzungs- und die Lebensdauer von Bauteilen. Der Autor vermittelt, wie diese Grenzen zu erkennen sind, und wie das Rissverhalten zu bewerten ist.
Bei der Dimensionierung von Bauteilen und beim Nachweis ihrer Haltbarkeit auf der Grundlage der Festigkeitslehre wird das Vorhandensein rissartiger Schadigungen ublicherweise nicht durch geminderte zulassigen Spannungen berucksichtigt. Im praktischen Betrieb werden rissgeschadigte Bauteile durch zerstorungsfreie Prufungen uberwacht.
Aus eigener praktischer Tatigkeit bei der Untersuchung von Schadensfallen...

In Ethical Judgment, Abraham Edel makes clear the part played by biological and social scientific information in ethical judgment and moral action using psychological, anthropological, and economic materials as well as historical studies. Edel suggests that many controversies in ethical theory have emerged because different ethical theories made different scientific assumptions. In the almost forty years since his book was first published, life has become more complex and technological change has accelerated, bringing changes to our morality and ethical theory as well as our...

Federal restrictions on the sale and possession of some firearms were introduced during Prohibition when illegal rumrunners battling for territorial rights commonly used machine guns to destroy the opposition. More sweeping legislation was not passed until 1968, and from that time on the struggle has been between pro- and anti-control forces, with more controls created at state and local levels than at the federal level. However, the mood in Washington has turned, and the question now is how the country can be weaned away from the violence that pervades every aspect of living, from...