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  Emil Brunner - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Brunner served as pastor from 1916-1917 in the mountain village of Obstalden in the Canton of Glarus.
Brunner was rewarded for his literary efforts with the appointment as the professor of Systematic and Practical Theology at the University of Zurich from 1924-1955.
Brunner undoubtedly holds a place of prominence in Protestant theology in the 20th century and was one of the four or five system builders.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Emil_Brunner   (702 words)

  
 John Brunner (novelist) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
John Kilian Houston Brunner (September 24, 1934 – August 26, 1995) was a prolific British author of science fiction novels and stories.
Brunner's best-known work is perhaps 1975's proto-Cyberpunk The Shockwave Rider, in which he coined the term "worm", used to describe software which reproduces itself across a computer network.
Brunner died of a stroke in Glasgow, Scotland, while attending the World Science Fiction Convention there.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/John_Brunner_(novelist)   (375 words)

  
 Brunner, Alois
Dal febbraio 1943 Brunner venne inviato in Grecia, a Salonicco, per organizzare in modo rapido e preciso la deportazione degli ebrei della città.
Brunner era consapevole che il gruppo era riuscito a corrompere Wisliceny ma non aveva le prove necessarie.
Brunner frattanto era riuscito a mischiarsi ai tedeschi residenti in Cecoslovacchia che erano fuggiti davanti all'Armata Rossa.
www.olokaustos.org /bionazi/leaders/brunner.htm   (973 words)

  
 Philosophie Constantin Brunner
Constantin Brunners theoretische Reflexionen begannen nicht in Hamburg, sondern bereits in seiner Studentenzeit.
Brunner zeigt in der "Lehre" das unser Denken der Dinge mit unseren Vorgestellten identisch ist.
Brunner legt großen Wert auf diese Unterscheidung, ja sie ist wesentliches Merkmal seines Denkens.
www.philosophie-constantin-brunner.de   (1381 words)

  
 Shockwave Rider: Brunner's Information Age
Even the example Brunner uses shows how ridiculous this supposed consequence of the information age is. Kate, one of the main characters in the novel, had a father whose discoveries were never accepted by the scientific community because they could not be reproduced by anyone else.
Brunner does not seem to understand that data in an experimet, and all subsequent results, can only be accepted by the scientific community as fact if other scientists, following the instructions provided by the original experimenter, can replicate the experiment.
Brunner spends most of his novel writing about all the dangers of the information age, and how it has taken away the pleasant community feel that comes from living in the same place with the same group of people.
members.tripod.com /~fourwalker/essays/shockwave.html   (976 words)

  
 John Brunner
Brunner was noted for his cynical insight into the workings of society and the human psyche as well as for his eerily accurate forecasts of technological and social trends.
Brunner was born at Preston Crowmarsh, in Oxfordshire, England in 1934.
Brunner served as Chairman of the British Science Fiction Association in 1972, and he was writer in residence at the University of Kansas in Lawrence.
www.nndb.com /people/720/000023651   (824 words)

  
 John Brunner Obituary
John Killian Houston Brunner was born at Preston Crowmarsh, Oxfordshire, in 1934 and educated at Cheltenham.
Brunner died Aug. 25 of a heart attack while attending a science-fiction convention in Glasgow, Scotland.
Brunner attracted attention outside his native England for his experimentation with story form and in 1969 drew great attention to his writing with a fragmented narrative that treated the potential nightmare of overpopulation in Stand on Zanzibar.
www.rudysbooks.com /brunnerobit.html   (571 words)

  
 Brunner Mond
Brunner Mond is planning to transform the land around its chemicals site in Northwich, including the creation of an urban village with 700 homes, the transformation of a waste dump into parkland and the construction of a new energy plant.
Brunner Mond is to acquire the soda ash operations of Akzo Nobel of the Netherlands.
Brunner Mond is planning a £100m combined heat and power plant at its Winnington chemicals plant in conjunction with PowerGen, with excess electricity being sold to the grid.
www.ukbusinesspark.co.uk /brd23516.htm   (278 words)

  
 George Brunner
In February, 2005 Brunner was invited to participate in the SPARK Festival at the University of Minnesota where he presented a paper, “Text Sound: Interlingua, Intermedia and Electronica”; and, had a concert of “Pianelan”, a quasi-electroacoustic music work for piano, voice and flute.
Brunner was composer-in-residence at the Institut International de Musique Electroacoustique de Bourges (France) and composed “Within/Without”, an electroacoustic work commissioned by the IMEB and designed for LE CYBERNEPHONE, a 20-60 speaker, multi-dimensional sound diffusion system.
Brunner is the Director of the Music Technology Program for the Conservatory of Music at Brooklyn College and is the founder of the Brooklyn College Electroacoustic Music Ensemble, which under his direction produces an annual CD.
www.voxnovus.com /composer/George_Brunner.htm   (461 words)

  
 Heroes of Cyberspace: John Brunner
Brunner comes so close here to predicting today's computer world, but his vision here is still stuck in the fifties: offices all over the United States rent time on Shalmaneser, as though it were an early IBM mainframe, and much of Shalmaneser's output is on reams of paper.
Brunner did have a grasp of the problems of applying computers to the real world: "Isolated in the air-conditioned GT tower, one might juggle for a thousand years with data from computers and pattern them into a million beautiful logical arrays.
Brunner identified himself with the political left (including anti-war actions in Britain during the sixties) but when he's read today, his outlook seems so much more concerned with the rights and dignity of the individual, rather than trying to social-engineer whole societies.
www.skypoint.com /members/gimonca/brunner.html   (1663 words)

  
 Stand on Zanzibar by John Brunner, science fiction book
Brunner began his career as a prolific writer of space operas, but soon moved on to more sophisticated, often dismal, visions of the future, playing a significant role in science fiction's "New Wave" movement.
Brunner's health was failing and he is reported to have become embittered by his lack of commercial success, despite the critical acclaim his work had received.
Brunner also wrote a number of novels outside of the science fiction and fantasy genres, including The Crutch of Memory (1964), A Plague on Both Your Causes (1969, alternate title Backlash), Black is the Color (1969), The Devil's Work (1970), Honky in the Woodpile (1971), and The Great Steamboat Race (1983).
members.aol.com /tishede/brunner.htm   (968 words)

  
 Brunner After The War
He is believed to live in Damascus using the name of his cousin Georg Fischer, though in December 1999, there were unconfirmed reports that he had died in 1996 and was buried in a Damascus cemetery.
Brunner is easily identifiable, having lost an eye and several fingers from letter bombs sent him years ago by French and Israeli security agents.
Brunner was already sentenced to death in absentia in France in 1953 and 1954; more recently, a new suit was filed there based on his sending children to Auschwitz.
www.auschwitz.dk /Brunner/new_page_2.htm   (498 words)

  
 Brunner case on student loan discharge
Marie Brunner, pro se, appeals from a decision of the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York, Charles S. Haight, Judge, which held that it was error for the bankruptcy court to discharge her student loans based on "undue hardship," 46 B.R. (Bankr.D.C.N.Y.1985).
Whether not discharging Brunner's student loans would impose on her "undue hardship" under 11 U.S.C. 523(a)(8)(B) requires a conclusion regarding the legal effect of the bankruptcy court's findings as to her circumstances.
Finally, as noted by the district court, Brunner filed for the discharge within a month of the date the first payment of her loans came due.
www.moranlaw.net /student_loan_brunner.htm   (580 words)

  
 Constantin Brunner   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
Brunner asserts that by modifying our practical to include this fact of absolute unity can significantly improve our practical understanding and the quality of our lives.
Brunner Judaism is an anti-religion a protest religion with its absolutizing of the relative.
Brunner was once described as "one of more important figures" in Europe along with Max Reinhardt Gerhart Hauptmann Maximilian Harden Richard Wagner and Leo Tolstoy (Confessions of a European Intellectual / Franz Schoenberner).
www.freeglossary.com /Constantin_Brunner   (1000 words)

  
 Alois Brunner
SS Hauptsturmführer Alois Brunner - the last leading Nazi still believed to be on the loose and Eichmann's second in command - was a key figure in the planning and execution of the Final Solution, the murder of 6 million Jews during World War II.
Alois Brunner bears direct responsibility for the deportation to Nazi death camps of 128,500 Jewish men, women and children from Austria, Greece, France, and Slovakia.
Alois Brunner was born in Austria in 1912 and joined the Austrian Nazi Party in 1931 at the age of 19.
www.deathcamps.info /Nazis/page_9.htm   (508 words)

  
 The Sheep Look Up: A Book of Environmental Disaster by John Brunner
Though John Brunner displays his considerable ability with prose, and through his talents leaves the reader with a sense of the dangers to come from environmental ambivalence, that is all this novel does.
Having been so critical of Brunner, it is only fair to mention his good qualities, the chief one being the father of cyberpunk.
The way that Brunner writes his novels, chaotically jumping from scene to scene, as well as using clips from the media reminds me a great deal of William Gibson.
www.sffworld.com /authors/b/brunner_john/articles/sheeplookup.html   (936 words)

  
 Alois Brunner
SS-Hauptsturmfuhrer Alois Brunner was born in Austria in 1912 and joined the Austrian Nazi Party in 1931 at the age of 19.
SS-Hauptsturmfuhrer Brunner transported the children of Izieu to Auschwitz.
If caught, Brunner would be extradited to France where he was sentenced in absentia in 2001 to life in prison for crimes against humanity.
www.us-israel.org /jsource/Holocaust/Brunner.html   (637 words)

  
 GrandPrix.com > GP Encyclopedia > People > Gustav Brunner
Brunner continued his apprenticeship in Germany and in 1978 was hired by the fledgling ATS F1, owned by mercurial German Gunther Schmid.
At the end of the year Brunner was hired by Ferrari to head the design team of the F187, with which Gerhard Berger won the Japanese and Australian GPs in 1987.
In early 2001 Brunner was poached by Toyota and led the design team in Cologne until the end of 2005.
www.grandprix.com /gpe/cref-brugus.html   (481 words)

  
 Revista No. 24 - Ciencias Humanas
Brunner destaca como el mayor hito en la historia de la externalización fue probablemente la escritura, poniendo el pensamiento y la memoria "ahí afuera" en tablillas o en papel, y agrega que las compu-tadoras y el correo electrónico pueden representar otro paso adelante.
Brunner llama "autoestima" a esta mezcla de eficacia y auto-valoración.
Ahora bien, según Brunner, esta perspectiva o modelo de pedagogía, da un paso más, cuando tiene en cuenta las "creencias" o "teorías" de los estudiantes y de los profesores, y se pregunta por la forma en que se convierten éstas en teorías viables sobre el mundo y sus hechos.
www.utp.edu.co /~chumanas/revistas/revistas/rev24/alzate.htm   (4670 words)

  
 Commercial Construction :: Seattle, Lynnwood, Snohomish County - Brunner Construction, Lynnwood WA :: About Us
Todd Brunner graduated from the University of Washington with a degree in Communications.
When they are not working, the Brunner family enjoys traveling, backcountry hiking and alpine skiing, and Todd scuba dives with a group of local volunteer divers, working on diver safety issues and marine habitat preservation.
Brunner Construction Company is a solid, family-owned, professional company with extensive expertise that wants to work with you on your next project.
www.brunnerconstruction.com /about   (558 words)

  
 Brunner Pouter
The Brunner is the smallest of the pouter family.
Brunners are very popular in Germany and, as a result of this popularity, have achieved a high level of quality in that country.
Brunner Pouters are found in a wide variety of beautiful colors including those often associated with Color Pigeons.
www.angelfire.com /ca/Capuchine/page3.html   (400 words)

  
 Brunner - aluminum channel, extruded aluminum angle, anodized aluminum shapes, aluminum pipe, bar, tube, square tubing ...
Brunner - aluminum channel, extruded aluminum angle, anodized aluminum shapes, aluminum pipe, bar, tube, square tubing connector
Brunner Enterprises, Inc. is a stocking distributor of both custom and standard aluminum extrusions with a selection of over 200 different anodized aluminum extrusions, including all the basic angles, bars, channels, round, square & rectangular tubes, and schedule pipe.
Brunner Enterprises, Inc. also has handrail fittings, square tubing connectors, and the fasteners needed to secure them.
www.brunnerent.com   (197 words)

  
 Theology Today - Vol 19, No. 4 - January 1963 - ARTICLE - Emil Brunner-Teacher Unsurpassed
Normally on Sundays the pews were empty except for the handful of fl-clad women; but when Brunner was scheduled to preach, one had to come early to find a seat.
But Brunner's friendly humor and sharp wit were well known to friends and students.
It is a characterization of his own life in relation to the hundreds of friends and students who, have known him, and to the God whose deeds and purposes he has faithfully expounded.
theologytoday.ptsem.edu /jan1963/v19-4-article7.htm   (1383 words)

  
 Brunner meubilair: projectmeubilair: stoelen bureaustoelen conferentiestoelen tafels: projectmeubelen/ projektmeubelen
Brunner is opgericht in 1977 te Rheinau, nabij Baden-Baden.
Met een jaaromzet van 65 miljoen euro behoort Brunner tot één van de toonaangevende meubelproducenten van stoelen, bureaustoelen, conferentiestoelen en tafels in alle mogelijke uitvoeringen en vormen.
Brunner staat voor creativiteit innovatie en perfectie tot in de kleinste details op het gebied van projectmeubilair.
www.brunner.nl   (117 words)

  
 Alois Brunner Talks About His Past
Brunner is a bitter and temperamental old man, reports Honsik, and it took some time to win his confidence.
Brunner made sure that the Jewish leader and his family were not interned, and after the war Löwenherz publicly expressed his appreciation for Brunner's support for a Jewish state by publicly intervening on his behalf.
Brunner is "an innocent man," and those who believe that he is a mass murderer or criminal are "victims of a great Allied propaganda lie," Honsik insists.
www.ihr.org /jhr/v10/v10p123_Weber.html   (712 words)

  
 CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Sebastian Brunner
Brunner's voluminous historical works are very valuale, particularly those on the history of the Church in Austria.
It is, however, as a humorist that Brunner takes a permanent place in the history of literature, for he counts among the best modern German humorous writers.
His works of this class were composed partly in verse, which at times reminds the reader of Hudibras, and partly in the form of prose stories.
www.newadvent.org /cathen/03013a.htm   (419 words)

  
 Barbie and Brunner
Brunner is easily identifiable, having lost an eye and several fingers from letter bombs sent him years ago by Israel’s intelligence services.
In 1995 German State prosecutors in Cologne and Frankfurt posted a $333,000 reward for information leading to the arrest of the last leading Nazi still believed to be on the loose.
In 2000 rumours were circulating that Poland was preparing to seek the extradition of Alois Brunner.
www.auschwitz.dk /children/id6.htm   (1350 words)

  
 Brunner & Brunner   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
Otto Brunner was one of the architects who gave some stability to the firm.
Brunner was involved in were additions to First Presbyterian Church, St. Joseph City Hall, First Trust Bank, Dillwood Motor Company (later to be the Polsky Motor Company and now vacant), Snow White restaurant, Savannah City Hall, Nodaway Holt High School in Maitland and other various schools and commercial buildings throughout Northwest Missouri and Northeast Kansas.
William Brunner came to work with his father in December 1960, and the firm was named Brunner and Brunner Architects and Engineers.
www.ponyexpress.net /~special/business/brunner.htm   (1527 words)

  
 Brunner Webhosting: AGB
Brunner Webhosting ist berechtigt, Verträge über den Bezug von Dienstleistungen und sonstige Dauerschuldverhältnisse durch schriftliche oder elektronische Mitteilung unter Einhaltung einer einmonatigen Kündigungsfrist aufzukündigen.
Brunner Webhosting haftet nicht für den Inhalt übermittelter Daten oder für den Inhalt von Daten, die durch Dienste von Brunner Webhosting zugänglich sind.
Brunner Webhosting behält sich jedoch vor, den Transport von Daten, oder Dienste, die den österreichischen Gesetzen oder internationalen Verpflichtungen oder den guten Sitten widersprechen, zu unterbinden, verpflichtet sich jedoch nicht dazu.
www.brunner.at /st_agb.php   (1570 words)

  
 Armin Brunner -   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
In den gleichen Zeitraum fällt auch Brunners Tätigkeit als Orchesterdirigent im In- und Ausland, von der zahlreiche Rundfunk- und Fernsehproduktionen Zeugnis ablegen.
Brunners Schaffen ist auf verschiedenen Ebenen vom Einsatz für die zeitgenössische Musik geprägt.
Armin Brunner hat auch die Reihe "Musikalische Meditationen" ins Leben gerufen, in denen kritische Zeitgenossen (wie Sölle, Küng, Hildesheimer, Drewermann, Wallraff, Biermann, Muschg) den Texten klassischer Oratorien "widersprechen".
www.goethe1999.de /deutsch/brunner.html   (342 words)

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