Books by "Michael W. Kauffman"
4 books found
"Michael Burlingame is one of the foremost authorities on Abraham Lincoln in the world; as James McPherson wrote in The New York Review of Books, "The author knows more about Lincoln than any other living person." The author or editor of over a dozen volumes about Lincoln, he is the Chancellor Naomi B. Lynn Distinguished Chair in Lincoln Studies at the University of Illinois at Springfield. This book represents an abridgement of his magisterial 2-volume Lincoln biography, Abraham Lincoln: A Life, which was first published in 2008 as a hardcover set and in 2013 as separate paperbacks and ebooks. In these pages, Burlingame treats Lincoln's childhood and early development, frontier experiences as a farm boy (with an abusive father) in the rugged Indiana and Illinois country of the early nineteenth century, romantic attachments and losses; his acquired love of learning, legal training, courtroom career; his political ambition, term as congressman in the late 1840s, subsequent defeat and serious bouts of depression in the 1850s. Burlingame depicts, without rose-colored glasses, the Abraham and Mary Todd Lincoln marriage. He recovers, in fresh detail, Lincoln's early race baiting and traces the mounting moral criticism of slavery that revived a political career and won this Springfield lawyer the presidency, with a Republican plurality, in 1860. This abridgement delivers Burlingame's signature insight into Lincoln as young man, father, and politician"--
In a series of intriguing essays ranging over terror, State fetishism, shamanic healing in Latin America, homesickness, and the place of the tactile eye in both magic and modernity, anthropologist Michael Taussig puts into representational practice a curious type of engaged writing. Based on a paranoiac vision of social control and its understanding as in a permanent state of emergency leaving no room for contemplation between signs and things, these essays hover between story-telling and high theory and thus create strange new modes of critical discourse. The Nervous System will appeal to writers, scholars, artists, film makers, and readers interested in critical theory, aesthetics, and politics.
Th Thorium
by Robert G. Behrens, Michael Bickel, Rolf Engleman, Jean Fuger, Lawrence E. Grimes, Basil Kanellakopulos, Daniel J. Lam, Kurt Roessler, Boyd W. Veal
2013 · Springer Science & Business Media
The present volume describes the general properties of the thorium atom and ions, the thermodynamics of its compounds and solutions, the behavior of solutions and solid com pounds under the influence of its own radiation as well as an external radiation field, and spectroscopic data in great detail. The different chapters are of special interest to scientists who work in these fields, and also in the corresponding fields of other elements. In some special fields there exists a detailed knowledge of this radioelement whereas in other fields, such as M6Bbauer spectra, lower oxidation states, or radiation stability, there are large gaps. Due to the fact that the significance 23 of thorium as a breeder fuel ( 2"fh to be converted to fissile 233U after thermal neutron capture) has decreased within the last decade, the behavior of thorium is not as yet so thoroughly investigated as the heavier radioactive element uranium. Many of these data, however, are not only of academic interest, e.g., the knowledge of atomic spectra is needed for some analytical methods, especially in the trace concentration region. Due to the noble gaS-like electronic configuration of the tetravalent ion, there are no absorption bands in the visible region so that in general spectra and data are very scarce. This volume is a very detailed and critically reviewed compilation, written by experts from the Federal Republic of Germany, Belgium, and the United States.