Berlin Rules

Author : Paul Lever
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1786731819
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.14/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Berlin Rules written by Paul Lever and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2017-05-30 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the second half of the twentieth century, Germany became the dominant political and economic power in Europe - and the arbiter of all important EU decisions. Yet Germany's leadership of the EU is geared principally to the defence of German national interests. Germany exercises power in order to protect the German economy and to enable it to play an influential role in the wider world. Beyond that there is no underlying vision or purpose.In this book, former British ambassador in Berlin Paul Lever provides a unique insight into modern Germany. He shows how the country's history has influenced its current economic and political structures and provides important perspectives on its likely future challenges and choices, especially in the context of the 2015 refugee crisis which saw over 1 million immigrants offered a home in Germany.As Britain prepares to leave the European Union, this book will be essential reading and suggests the future shape of a Germany dominated Europe.

Author : Paul Lever
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1786721813
Total Pages : 226 pages
Book Rating : 4.15/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Berlin Rules written by Paul Lever and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2017-05-30 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the second half of the twentieth century, Germany became the dominant political and economic power in Europe – and the arbiter of all important EU decisions. Yet Germany's leadership of the EU is geared principally to the defence of German national interests. Germany exercises power in order to protect the German economy and to enable it to play an influential role in the wider world. Beyond that there is no underlying vision or purpose. In this book, former British ambassador in Berlin Paul Lever provides a unique insight into modern Germany. He shows how the country's history has influenced its current economic and political structures and provides important perspectives on its likely future challenges and choices, especially in the context of the 2015 refugee crisis which saw over 1 million immigrants offered a home in Germany. As Britain prepares to leave the European Union, this book will be essential reading and suggests the future shape of a Germany dominated Europe.

Author : The Berlin House of Representatives
Publisher : DigiCat
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 52 pages
Book Rating : 4.76/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Constitution of Berlin written by The Berlin House of Representatives and published by DigiCat. This book was released on 2022-09-15 with total page 52 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Constitution of Berlin was adopted in 1995 by the Berlin House of Representatives and ratified by a referendum the same year. It was later amended in 2016. It contains the set of laws for the government of the state of Berlin, which is also the capital city of the nation of Germany. It sets out among other things, the basic rights of citizens and aliens, the territorial delineation, as well as the structure of government and administration of justice in the state.

Author : Frank Backus Williams
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 18 pages
Book Rating : 4.23/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Building Regulation by Districts, the Lesson of Berlin written by Frank Backus Williams and published by . This book was released on 1914 with total page 18 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Lorraine Daston
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 0691254087
Total Pages : 384 pages
Book Rating : 4.81/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Rules written by Lorraine Daston and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2023-08-08 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A panoramic history of rules in the Western world Rules order almost every aspect of our lives. They set our work hours, dictate how we drive and set the table, tell us whether to offer an extended hand or cheek in greeting, and organize the rites of life, from birth through death. We may chafe under the rules we have, and yearn for ones we don’t, yet no culture could do without them. In Rules, historian Lorraine Daston traces their development in the Western tradition and shows how rules have evolved from ancient to modern times. Drawing on a rich trove of examples, including legal treatises, cookbooks, military manuals, traffic regulations, and game handbooks, Daston demonstrates that while the content of rules is dazzlingly diverse, the forms that they take are surprisingly few and long-lived. Daston uncovers three enduring kinds of rules: the algorithms that calculate and measure, the laws that govern, and the models that teach. She vividly illustrates how rules can change—how supple rules stiffen, or vice versa, and how once bothersome regulations become everyday norms. Rules have been devised for almost every imaginable activity and range from meticulous regulations to the laws of nature. Daston probes beneath this variety to investigate when rules work and when they don’t, and why some philosophical problems about rules are as ancient as philosophy itself while others are as modern as calculating machines. Rules offers a wide-angle view on the history of the constraints that guide us—whether we know it or not.

Author : Jan-Werner Müller
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 9811327939
Total Pages : 94 pages
Book Rating : 4.33/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Isaiah Berlin’s Cold War Liberalism written by Jan-Werner Müller and published by Springer. This book was released on 2019-01-21 with total page 94 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book offers a succinct re-examination of Berlin’s Cold War liberalism, at a time when many observers worry about the emergence of a new Cold War. Two chapters look closely at Berlin’s liberalism in a Cold War context, one carefully analyses whether Berlin was offering a universal political theory – and argues that he did indeed (already at the time of the Cold War there were worries that Berlin was a kind of relativist). It will be of value for scholars of the cold war and of security issues in contemporary Asia, as well as students of history and philosophy.

Author : Jeffrey Magee
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0199381011
Total Pages : 409 pages
Book Rating : 4.12/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Irving Berlin's American Musical Theater written by Jeffrey Magee and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2014-04-08 with total page 409 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Irving Berlin's songs have been the soundtrack of America for a century, but his most profound contribution to the nation is to Broadway. Award-winning music historian Jeffrey Magee's chronicle of Berlin's theatrical career is the first book to fully consider the songwriter's immeasurable influence on the Great White Way.

Author : The Berlin House of Representatives
Publisher : Good Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 52 pages
Book Rating : 4.33/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Constitution of Berlin written by The Berlin House of Representatives and published by Good Press. This book was released on 2021-04-10 with total page 52 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Constitution of Berlin was adopted in 1995 by the Berlin House of Representatives and ratified by a referendum the same year. It was later amended in 2016. It contains the set of laws for the government of the state of Berlin, which is also the capital city of the nation of Germany. It sets out among other things, the basic rights of citizens and aliens, the territorial delineation, as well as the structure of government and administration of justice in the state.

Author : Benjamin Sears
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0199913501
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.03/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Irving Berlin Reader written by Benjamin Sears and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2012-04-06 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Without any formal training in music composition, Irving Berlin took a knack for music and turned it into the most successful songwriting career in American history. Berlin was the first Tin Pan Alley songwriter to go uptown to Broadway with a complete musical score (Watch Your Step in 1914); he is the only songwriter to build a theater exclusively for his own work (The Music Box); and his name appears above the title of his Broadway shows and Hollywood films (Irving Berlin's Holiday Inn), still a rare honor for songwriters. Berlin is also notable due the length of his career in American Song; he sold his first song at the age of 18 and passed away at the age of 101 having outlived several of his own copyrights. Throughout his career, Berlin showed that a popular song need not be of a lesser quality than songs informed by the principles of "classical" music composition. Forty years after his last published song many of his songs remain popular and several have even entered folk song status, something no other 20th-century American songwriter can claim. As one of the most seminal figures of twentieth century, both in the world of music and in American culture more generally, and as one of the rare songwriters equally successful with popular songs, Broadway shows, and Hollywood scores, Irving Berlin is the subject of an enormous corpus of writing, scattered throughout countless publications and archives. A noted performer and interpreter of Berlin's works, Benjamin Sears has unprecedented familiarity with these sources and brings together in this Reader a broad range of the most insightful primary and secondary materials. Grouped together according to the chronology of Berlin's life and work, each section and article features a critical introduction to orient the reader and contextualize the materials within the framework of American musical history. Taken as a whole, the writings - many by Berlin himself -- provide a new perspective on Berlin that highlights his musical genius in the context of his artistic development.

Author : Peter H. Gleick
Publisher : Island Press
ISBN 13 : 1610910486
Total Pages : 440 pages
Book Rating : 4.84/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The World's Water Volume 7 written by Peter H. Gleick and published by Island Press. This book was released on 2012-09-26 with total page 440 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Produced biennially, The World's Water is the most comprehensive and up-to-to date source of information and analysis on freshwater resources. Each new volume examines critical global trends and offers the best data available on a variety of topics related to water. Volume 7 features chapters on U.S. water policy, transboundary waters, and the effects of fossil fuel production on water resources, among other timely issues. Water briefs provide concise updates on topics including bottled water, The Great Lakes Water Agreement, and water and security. The World's Water is coauthored by MacArthur "genius" Peter H. Gleick and his colleagues at the world-renowned Pacific Institute. Since the first volume was published in 1998, the series has become an indispensable resource for professionals in government agencies and nongovernmental organizations, researchers, students, and anyone concerned with water and its use.