Born in 1902 into a Jewish family, Karl Konig grew up in Vienna in the last years of the Austro-Hungarian Empire. He studied medicine and during this time came across the work of Rudolf Steiner. Soon after graduating he worked with Ita Wegman in Switzerland, where he also met his wife, Tilla. He was[...]

From the first to third century AD Greek athletics flourished as never before. This book offers exciting readings of those developments. Drawing on a wide range of evidence, it sheds light on practices of athletic competition and athletic education in the Roman Empire. In addition it examines some o[...]

For decades the European Union tried changing its institutions, but achieved only unsatisfying political compromises and modest, incremental treaty revisions. In late 2009, however, the EU was successfully reformed through the Treaty of Lisbon. "Reforming the European Union" examines how political l[...]

Karl Konig, the founder of Camphill, was a prolific lecturer and writer on a wide range of subjects from anthroposophy and Christology through social questions and curative education to science and history. The Karl Konig Archive are working on a programme of publishing these works over the coming y[...]

Kaspar Hauser was a young man who appeared on the streets of Nuremberg in Germany in the early nineteenth century. His innocence and mysterious background captured the hearts of many at the time. The year 2012 marks the 200th anniversary of Kaspar Hauser's birth. This timely book draws together Karl[...]

UPDATE: Finalist for the Lambda Literary Award (Humor) "Roy & Al" is the first English-language book by Europe's most popular gay cartoonist, Germany's Ralf K?nig, whose collections have sold over a million copies and been translated into French, Italian, Spanish, Norwegian, and Danish. Ralf's enorm[...]

DESCRIPTION Since its introduction a few years back, Groovy has grown from an upstart dynamic language for the JVM to become an integral part of any Java developer's toolbox. Projects like Grails and Griffon have extended Groovy's reach into the web and desktop app world. Groovy in Action, Second Ed[...]

English summary: The Theologia positiva acroamatica, one of the most widely used textbooks for the study of dogmatics in the 17th and 18th centuries, gives a clear and concise view of classic post-Reformation dogmatics. In this work, which is being published at the same time as the edition of the te[...]

Communication protocols form the operational basis of computer networks and tele communication systems. They are behavior conventions that describe how com munication systems inter act with each other, defining the temporal order of the interactions and the formats of the data units exchanged - esse[...]