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THE first edition of Dr. Reyer's “Kraft” was noticed at length in NATURE (vol. lxxviii., p. 660) shortly after oublication, and to that notice we must refer the Deader for details as to the scope of the work. The present, second, edition has been somewhat extended, but does not appear to have been rewritten to any considerable extent, and it retains all the faults of the earlier issue. The same lack of orderly arrangement distracts the reader, the same lack of references renders the work almost valueless to the serious student, and the same absence of “the scales and the names of the plotted quantities” continues to characterise the diagrams. The bibliography remains remarkable both for its inclusions and its omissions, and it stil contains even the two remarkable entries to which attention was directed in the notice of the first edition—“Produktion and consum. of timbre in forein countries (blue book),” and “Statesman's yearbook, Statist. Abstracts (mit statistischen Tabellen)”—the latter entry apparently confusing the “Statesman's Yearbook” with the “Statistical Abstracts.”
Kraft: das ist animalische, mechanische, soziale Energien und deren Bedeutung für die Machtentfaltung der Staaten.
By Prof. Dr. E. Reyer. Zweite Auflage. Pp. xvi + 471. (Leipzig: W. Engelmann, 1909.) Price 8 marks.
Soziale Mächte: als Ergänzung der Arbeit über "Kraft".
Same author and publisher. Pp. 111. (1908.) Price 1.60 marks.
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Kraft: das ist animalische, mechanische, soziale Energien und deren Bedeutung für die Machtentfaltung der Staaten Soziale Mächte: als Ergänzung der Arbeit über “Kraft” . Nature 84, 103 (1910). https://doi.org/10.1038/084103b0
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