Benjamin Howard

The Howard E. LeFevre ’29 Emerging Practitioner Fellowship provides an individual with a nine-month residency to investigate a specific project related to his or her overall development, to produce an

Der Weg von der Inbetriebnahme eines Prozessorsystems bis zur Implementierung einer Human Machine Interface (HMI) bildet den Schwerpunkt dieses Werks. Der Autor erlautert, wie Treiber und Betriebssyst

Begun in Poveromo, Italy, in 1932, and extensively revised in 1938, Berlin Childhood around 1900 remained unpublished during Walter Benjamin's lifetime, one of his "large-scale defeats." Now translate

Walter Benjamin's posthumously published collection of writings on hashish is a detailed blueprint for a book that was never written--a "truly exceptional book about hashish," as Benjamin describes it

Walter Benjamin became a published writer at the age of seventeen. Yet the first stirrings of this most original of critical minds—penned during the years in which he transformed himself from the comf

Techniques and Tools for Solving Acoustics ProblemsThis is the first book of its kind that describes the use of ANSYSR finite element analysis (FEA) software, and MATLABR engineering programming softw

Techniques and Tools for Solving Acoustics ProblemsThis is the first book of its kind that describes the use of ANSYS® finite element analysis (FEA) software, and MATLAB® engineering programming softw

Origin of the German Trauerspiel was Walter Benjamin’s first full, historically oriented analysis of modernity. Readers of English know it as “The Origin of German Tragic Drama,” but in fact the subject is something else—the play of mourning. Howard Eiland’s completely new English translation, the first since 1977, is closer to the German text and more consistent with Benjamin’s philosophical idiom.Focusing on the extravagant seventeenth-century theatrical genre of the trauerspiel, precursor of the opera, Benjamin identifies allegory as the constitutive trope of the Baroque and of modernity itself. Allegorical perception bespeaks a world of mutability and equivocation, a melancholy sense of eternal transience without access to the transcendentals of the medieval mystery plays—though no less haunted and bedeviled. History as trauerspiel is the condition as well as subject of modern allegory in its inscription of the abyssal.Benjamin’s investigation of the trauerspiel includes German tex

Bowser (sociology and social services, California State U.), Quimby (sociology, Howard U.), and Singer (Center for Community Health Research at the Hispanic Health Council) bring together 11 studies o

Mays (1894-1984), a dean at Howard University, president of Morehouse College, and president of the Atlanta School Board, explains, especially to younger Americans of any race, what Negro-white relati

Although it did not officially become a county until 1851, Howard County has a long and varied history that spans more than 400 years. Named for Revolutionary War hero John Eager Howard, this rapidly