Skip to main content
Search Button
United States Kobo store Gift Cards Help

Rakuten Kobo

Wishlist

Shopping Cart

You're getting the VIP treatment!

Item(s) unavailable for purchase
Please review your cart. You can remove the unavailable item(s) now or we'll automatically remove it at Checkout.
itemsitem
itemsitem

Recommended For You

Loading...


Showing 1 - 12 of 146 results for “s schumann”
Skip side bar filters

  • 3 Romances - A Score for Solo Piano Op.28 (1839)

    by Robert Schumann ...
    This volume contains the complete score for Robert Schumann's 1839 solo piano composition, “3 Romances, Op.28”. Robert Schumann (1810 – 1856) was a seminal German composer and esteemed music critic. When his piano teacher assured him hat the could be the most accomplished piano virtuoso in Europe, he dedicated his energies to this end. However, a severe injury to his hand meant that his dream ... Read more

    $8.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • How the Internet Shapes Collective Actions

    by S. Schumann ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    After a Facebook rebellion in Egypt and Twitter protests in Turkey, the internet has been proclaimed as a globe-shifting, revolutionizing force that can incite complex social phenomena such as collective actions. This book critically assesses this claim and highlights how internet use can shape mobilizing processes to foster collective actions. ... Read more

    $49.99 USD

  • Praising the Paradox

    Poems

    by Tina Schumann ...
    A collection of poetry with "resilience throughout and an awareness of the common world that both comforts and devastates" (Dorianne Laux, award-winning author of Only As the Day Is Long).From Tina Schumann, recipient of the American Poet Prize from The American Poetry Journal and a Pushcart Prize nominee, comes a full collection of fifty-six poems reflecting on the concept of self, loss, ... Read more

    $8.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • When Thoughts and Prayers Aren't Enough

    A Shooting Survivor's Journey into the Realities of Gun Violence

    by Taylor Sharpe Schumann ...
    Foreword INDIES Book of the Year Award FinalistECPA Top Shelf Award WinnerTaylor Schumann never thought she'd be a victim of gun violence. But one spring day a man with a shotgun walked into her workplace and opened fire on her. While she survived, she was left with permanent wounds, both visible and invisible.In When Thoughts and Prayers Aren't Enough, Taylor invites us to see what it means to be ... Read more

    $25.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Two-Countries

    US Daughters & Sons of Immigrant Parents: Flash Memoir, Personal Essays and Poetry

    Edited by Tina Schumann ...
    The IPPY Award–winning anthology of poetry, memoir, and essays—"accounts of assimilation and nostalgia, celebration and resistance" (Rick Barot, author of The Galleons).This collection contains contributions from sixty-five writers who were either born and/or raised in the United States by one or more immigrant parent. Their work describes the many contradictions, discoveries and life lessons one ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Swarm Intelligence

    From Social Bacteria to Humans

    Edited by Andrew Schumann ...
    The notion of swarm intelligence was introduced for describing decentralized and self-organized behaviors of groups of animals. Then this idea was extrapolated to design groups of robots which interact locally to cumulate a collective reaction. Some natural examples of swarms are as follows: ant colonies, bee colonies, fish schooling, bird flocking, horse herding, bacterial colonies, ... Read more

    $94.99 USD

  • Being Present

    Growing Up in Hitler's Germany

    by Schumann ...
    “Professor Schumann, of Smith College, was six years old when Hitler came to power in Germany. He grew up in a smallish, very ship-minded town on the approach to the Kiel Canal. The place was far from the centers of power and corruption, and devoid of concentration camps. Young Willy became a devoted Nazi believer. Professor Schumann’s intention in writing this understated and not self-defensive ... Read more

    $14.29 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Explanation in Action Theory and Historiography

    Causal and Teleological Approaches

    Edited by Gunnar Schumann ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Contemporary Philosophy
    Is the appropriate form of human action explanation causal or rather teleological? While this is a central question in analytic philosophy of action, it also has implications for questions about the differences between methods of explanation in the sciences on the one hand and in the humanities and the social sciences on the other. Additionally, this question bears on the problem of the ... Read more

    $64.99 USD

  • Flood Risk Assessment and Management

    How to Specify Hydrological Loads, Their Consequences and Uncertainties

    Edited by Andreas H. Schumann ...
    Series series Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
    Flood catastrophes which happened world-wide have shown that it is not sufficient to characterize the hazard caused by the natural phenomenon "flood" with the well-known 3M-approach (measuring, mapping and modelling). Due to the recent shift in paradigms from a safety oriented approach to risk based planning it became necessary to consider the harmful impacts of hazards. The planning tasks changed ... Read more

    $89.99 USD

  • Nationalism and Liberal Thought in the Arab East

    Ideology and Practice

    Edited by Christoph Schumann ...
    Series series SOAS/Routledge Studies on the Middle East
    This book explores the complex relationship between nationalism and liberal thought in the Arab East during the first half of the twentieth century. Examining this formative period through reformist Islam, Arab secularism and Arab literature, the book situates major shifts in the political ideologies and practices of Arab liberals within a historical context.Contributions from renowned scholars in ... Read more

    $70.99 USD

  • Atmospheric Physics

    Background – Methods – Trends

    Edited by Ulrich Schumann ...
    Series series Physics and Astronomy (R0)
    On the occasion of the 50th anniversary of the Institute of Atmospheric Physics of the German Aerospace Center (DLR), this book presents more than 50 chapters highlighting results of the institute’s research.The book provides an up-to-date, in-depth survey across the entire field of atmospheric science, including atmospheric dynamics, radiation, cloud physics, chemistry, climate, numerical ... Read more

    $188.99 USD

  • Raising Citizens in the 'Century of the Child'

    The United States and German Central Europe in Comparative Perspective

    Edited by Dirk Schumann ...
    Series Book 12 - Studies in German History
    The 20th century, declared at its start to be the “Century of the Child” by Swedish author Ellen Key, saw an unprecedented expansion of state activity in and expert knowledge on child-rearing on both sides of the Atlantic. Children were seen as a crucial national resource whose care could not be left to families alone. However, the exact scope and degree of state intervention and expert influence ... Read more

    $23.99 USD