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Organizational Epistemology
Published in Hardcover by Palgrave Macmillan (1995)
Authors: Georg Von Krogh and Johan Roos
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Fascinating book on knowledge in organizations
This book offers a fresh perspective on knowledge in organizations. Clearly, the book was written for an academic audience and reflective practitioners, but if you take the time to read its core messages, you will think differently about the knowledge assets available to the firm.


Over Indonesia: Aerial Views of the Archipelago
Published in Hardcover by Archipelago Press (1998)
Authors: Michael Vatikiotis, Georg Gerster, and Guido Alberto Rossi
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Beautiful Photo Essay which shows diversity of Indonesia
Beautiful photo Essays with photos taken from air. It will give you good idea of the diversity in Indonesia. Some historical photos and illustration. Photos I love are those close up with people on earth are smiling and waving their hands to the plane!


A Passion for Indonesian Art: The Georg Tillmann Collection at the Tropenmuseum Amsterdam
Published in Paperback by University of Washington Press (1997)
Authors: J. H. Van Brakel, Koos Van Brakel, David Van Duuren, Itie Van Hout, Koos Van Brakel, I. C. Van Hout, Netherlands) Tropenmuseum (Amsterdam, and David Van Duuren
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The Georg Tillman Collection
Perhaps, the best book ever wriiten about this great collection and the great man.


Pennsylvania Heritage: Diversity in Art, Dance, Food, Music, and Customs
Published in Hardcover by Rb Books (2001)
Authors: Georg R. Sheets, Blair Seitz, and Shalom Staub
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Old World Traditions Alive in America
This lushly illustrated book belongs in every American library and any home that values diversity and Old World traditions. Dozens of bright, colorful photographs by Blair Seitz make the lively text by Georg R. Sheets a pleasure to behold. I counted dozens of ethnic groups represented in this hard cover large format volume. From the Native American Festival held in Sullivan County to the San Rocco Festival held in Aliquippa, this book makes you feel like you are there. Ukrainians, Italian, Croatians, Irish, Swedish, Lithuanians, and Jewish groups are just a few of the traditions explored here. Take a look at the foods, crafts, parades, festivals, music and holidays that add to the festive Pennsylvania experience reflected around the globe. It's a must for anyone conscious of the fact that we live on a very small globe, indeed.


The Philosophy of Classical Yoga
Published in Hardcover by Palgrave Macmillan (1980)
Author: Georg Feuerstein
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Learn the major philosophical ideas of yoga
This book is for the intermediate to advanced student or teacher of yoga who wishes to understand the definitions and inter-relationships between the concepts of classical yoga. For those interested in the Yoga Sutras of Patanjali, this text will help you access the ideas that lead to liberation. A clear understanding helps one's spiritual practice. This is a short book that is read slowly and digested. It serves as a reference to review from time to time as well. Enjoy! It would be a good gift for someone who is really into yoga, but not the choice for the novice.


The Power of Negativity: Selected Writings on the Dialectic in Hegel and Marx
Published in Textbook Binding by Rowman & Littlefield (15 January, 2002)
Authors: Raya Dunayevskaya, Peter Hudis, and Kevin B. Anderson
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One of the best books on dialectics
Whether one is interested in Marxist theory or in a scholarly treatment of Hegelian philosophy, this new collection of Raya Dunayevskaya's writings on the dialectic in Hegel and Marx is a must-read. _The Power of Negativity_ is a truly compelling book for anyone who wants to delve into Hegel's thought, Marx's relation to dialectics, and the major debates on dialectical philosophy in 20th Century Marxism.

_The Power of Negativity_ illuminates all of this through a range of pieces, including detailed summaries and extensive commentaries on Hegel's most philosophically important works: the Phenomenology of Mind, the Science of Logic, the Encyclopedia Logic, and the Philosophy of Mind. It contains several expositions of Dunayevskaya's unique and thoughtful interpretation of Hegel, as well as of her analysis of "Marx's transformation of Hegel's revolution in philosophy into a philosophy of 'revolution in permanence,'" which presents her views on what is fundamental to a Marxist concept of a new society, from the breakdown of the division between mental and physical labor to the transformation of the relationship between women and men. It contains correspondence with such scholars as Herbert Marcuse, Erich Fromm, George Armstrong Kelly, Louis Dupre, Jonathan Spence, and C.L.R. James, as well as worker-thinkers Charles Denby and Harry McShane; and lectures to audiences as varied as Hegel scholars, African-American workers, and Japanese student radicals. It contains philosophic critiques and commentaries on major theoreticians such as Lukacs, Korsch, Adorno, Frantz Fanon, Engels, Rosa Luxemburg, Lenin, Trotsky, Bukharin, Mao, Sartre, and Merleau-Ponty, as well as expositions of her own distinctive Marxist-Humanist philosophic standpoint.

Dunayevskaya came of age in the period when Stalin's counter-revolution, coming from within the revolutionary movement, succeeded in transforming what grew out of the Russian Revolution into its opposite, totalitarian state-capitalism that still called itself "Communism." She recognized the Russian Revolution's transformation into opposite as a fundamental challenge to revolutionary Marxism, and set about using Marx's economic categories and Russia's "five-year plan" statistics to prove that Russia had become a state-capitalist society. But she also saw that an economic/political answer was not sufficient and a re-creation of Marx's philosophy of revolution was required to meet the challenge of the age. This led to her founding of the philosophy of Marxist-Humanism, to which an "unchained" version of Hegel's dialectic of absolute negativity is central. As Dunayevskaya put it in one of the pieces in _The Power of Negativity_:

"...because Absolute Negativity signifies transformation of reality, the dialectic of contradiction and totality of crises, the dialectic of liberation, Hegel's thought comes to life at critical points of history, called by him 'birth-times of history.'"

A thorough, clear, and accessible introduction explores the relationship of the dialectic to the nature of the present moment and the relationship of Dunayevskaya's work to contemporary issues in dialectical philosophy. The introduction also gives an overview of her writings on dialectics as well as an overview of the book and its structure, after which the reader is well prepared to plunge into the rest of the book. This book makes a contribution to the clarification of theoretical issues that are central to the problem of transforming reality. One of its virtues is that it provides accessible discussions of some of Hegel and Marx's philosophic works, many in the form of lectures and informal discussions.


Punishment and Social Structure
Published in Paperback by Transaction Pub (2003)
Authors: Georg Rusche, Otto Kirchheimer, and Dario Melossi
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An involving essay about the foundation of society
Now with a new introduction by Dario Melossi, Punishment And Social Structure by Georg Rusche and Otto Kirchheimer offers significant scholarship in the study of criminology, and one that traces the origin of its ideas to an article written by Georg Rusche in 1933, entitled "Labor Market and Penal Sanction: Thoughts on the Sociology of Criminal Justice". Expanding on the original article's ideas to classify the history of crime into three primary eras - early Middle Ages with emphasis on penance and fines, later Middle Ages marked by severe corporal and capital punishment, and the seventeenth century with its development of the prison system, Punishment And Social Structure is an involving essay about the foundation of society and its treatment of miscreants and a strongly recommended addition to professional and academic Law, Jurisprudence, Penology, and Criminology Studies reference collections and reading lists.


Red Cage: Documentary: A True Account by My Father, Georg Schinke, Who Spent Nine Grueling Years As a German Prisoner of War in Russia's Gulag Arch
Published in Paperback by Brunswick Pub Co (1994)
Author: Gerborg Frick
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Red Cage
This book is spell binding, and others, who read it too, cannot lay it aside, but must finish reading from cover to cover. Not many people were capable to write about their experiences of being captivated by the enemy and kept behind barbed wire for endless years. Most soldiers, who fall prey to this kind of reprisal remain quiet, trying to forget. But can they? And what will happen to many after the attack on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon? Soldiers will be sent again to do their duty.....


Resolute and Undertaking Characters: The Lives of Wilhelm and Otto Struve (Astrophysica and Space Science Library)
Published in Hardcover by D Reidel Pub Co (2002)
Authors: Alan Henry Batten and Rlf Boyd
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Rationality To-Day = LA Rationalit±E Aujourd'Hui (Collection Philosophica, V. 13)
Published in Paperback by University of Ottawa Press (1979)
Authors: University of Ottawa, 1 International Symposium on Rationality To-Day, Hans Georg Gadamer, and Theodore F. Geraets
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