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The Aesthetics Of Resistanceby Joachim Neugroschel, Peter WeissISBN 0822335468 (0-8223-3546-8)
Softcover, Duke Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Aesthetics Of Resistance'Book summary:A major literary event, the publication of this masterly translation makes one of the towering works of twentieth-century German literature available to English-speaking readers for the first time. The three-volume novel The Aesthetics of Resistance is the crowning achievement of Peter Weiss, the internationally renowned dramatist best known for his play Marat/Sade. The first volume, presented here, was initially published in Germany in 1975; the third and final volume appeared in 1981, just six months before Weisss death.[via]Spanning the period from the late 1930s to World War II, this historical novel dramatizes anti-fascist resistance and the rise and fall of proletarian political parties in Europe. Living in Berlin in 1937, the unnamed narrator and his peerssixteen- and seventeen-year-old working-class studentsseek ways to express their hatred for the Nazi regime. They meet in museums and galleries, and in their discussions they explore the affinity between political resistance and art, the connection at the heart of Weisss novel. Weiss suggests that meaning lies in embracing resistance, no matter how intense the oppression, and that we must look to art for new models of political action and social understanding. The novel includes extended meditations on paintings, sculpture, and literature. Moving from the Berlin underground to the front lines of the Spanish Civil War and on to other parts of Europe, the story teems with characters, almost all of whom are based on historical figures. The Aesthetics of Resistance is one of the truly great works of postwar German literature and an essential resource for understanding twentieth-century German history.
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The Alchemistby Paulo Coelho, Alan R. ClarkeISBN 0613334582 (0-613-33458-2)
Hardcover, Bt Bound
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Alchemist'Book summary:Amazon.co.uk Review Like the one-time bestseller Jonathan Livingston Seagull, The Alchemist presents a simple fable, based on simple truths and places it in a highly unique situation. And though we may sense a bestselling formula, it is certainly not a new one: even the ancient tribal storytellers knew that this is the most successful method of entertaining an audience while slipping in a lesson or two. Brazilian storyteller Paulo Coehlo introduces Santiago, an Andalucian shepherd boy who one night dreams of a distant treasure in the Egyptian pyramids. And so he's off: leaving Spain to literally follow his dream. Along the way he meets many spiritual messengers, who come in unassuming forms such as a camel driver and a well-read Englishman. In one of the Englishman's books, Santiago first learns about the alchemists--men who believed that if a metal were heated for many years, it would free itself of all its individual properties, and what was left would be the "Soul of the World." Of course he does eventually meet an alchemist, and the ensuing student-teacher relationship clarifies much of the boy's misguided agenda, while also emboldening him to stay true to his dreams. "My heart is afraid that it will have to suffer," the boy confides to the alchemist one night as they look up at a moonless night. "Tell your heart that the fear of suffering is worse than the suffering itself," the alchemist replies. "And that no heart has ever suffered when it goes in search of its dreams, because every second of the search is a second's encounter with God and with eternity." [via]
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And Where Were You, Adam?by Heinrich Boll, Leila VennewitzISBN 0810111640 (0-8101-1164-0)
Softcover, Northwestern Univ Pr
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Angels & Demonsby Dan BrownISBN 074349346X (0-7434-9346-X)
Softcover, Washington Square Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Angels & Demons'Book summary:Hardcover Special Illustrated edition of Angels & Demons [via]
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Hardcover, Atria Books - Angels & Demons: ISBN 0743486226 (0-7434-8622-6)
Hardcover, Atria Books - Angels & Demons: ISBN 0671027360 (0-671-02736-0)
Softcover, Pocket Books - Angels & Demons: ISBN 0743412397 (0-7434-1239-7)
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Angels and Demonsby Dan BrownISBN 0739326759 (0-7393-2675-9)
Softcover, Ballantine Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Angels and Demons'Book summary:It takes guts to write a novel that combines an ancient secret brotherhood, the Swiss Conseil Européen pour la Recherche Nucléaire, a papal conclave, mysterious ambigrams, a plot against the Vatican, a mad scientist in a wheelchair, particles of antimatter, jets that can travel 15,000 miles per hour, crafty assassins, a beautiful Italian physicist, and a Harvard professor of religious iconology. It takes talent to make that novel anything but ridiculous. Kudos to Dan Brown (Digital Fortress) for achieving the nearly impossible. Angels & Demons is a no-holds-barred, pull-out-all-the-stops, breathless tangle of a thriller--think Katherine Neville's The Eight (but cleverer) or Umberto Eco's Foucault's Pendulum (but more accessible).
Harvard symbologist Robert Langdon is shocked to find proof that the legendary secret society, the Illuminati--dedicated since the time of Galileo to promoting the interests of science and condemning the blind faith of Catholicism--is alive, well, and murderously active. Brilliant physicist Leonardo Vetra has been murdered, his eyes plucked out, and the society's ancient symbol branded upon his chest. His final discovery, antimatter, the most powerful and dangerous energy source known to man, has disappeared--only to be hidden somewhere beneath Vatican City on the eve of the election of a new pope. Langdon and Vittoria, Vetra's daughter and colleague, embark on a frantic hunt through the streets, churches, and catacombs of Rome, following a 400-year-old trail to the lair of the Illuminati, to prevent the incineration of civilization.
Brown seems as much juggler as author--there are lots and lots of balls in the air in this novel, yet Brown manages to hurl the reader headlong into an almost surreal suspension of disbelief. While the reader might wish for a little more sardonic humor from Langdon, and a little less bombastic philosophizing on the eternal conflict between religion and science, these are less fatal flaws than niggling annoyances--readers should have no trouble skimming past them and immersing themselves in a heck of a good read. "Brain candy" it may be, but my! It's tasty. --Kelly Flynn [via]
Asterix and the Secret Weaponby Albert Uderzo, René GoscinnyISBN 0752847775 (0-7528-4777-5)
Softcover, Orion Books Limited
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Asterix and the Secret Weaponby Uderzo, Albert UderzoISBN 0752847163 (0-7528-4716-3)
Hardcover, Orion Pub Co
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Asterix and the Soothsayerby René Goscinny, Albert UderzoISBN 0752866427 (0-7528-6642-7)
Softcover, Orion Books Limited
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Asterix and the Soothsayer'Book summary:It was a dark and stormy night, and a sinister visitor has arrived in the little Gaulish village where Asterix lives. Prolix claims he's a soothsayer, and the townsfolk believe every word he says. Only Asterix knows better. How can he make all his friends see the truth?[via]More editions of Asterix and the Soothsayer:
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Author of Himself: The Life of Marcel Reich-Ranickiby Marcel Reich-RanickiISBN 0691090408 (0-691-09040-8)
Hardcover, Princeton Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Author of Himself: The Life of Marcel Reich-Ranicki'Book summary:Marcel Reich-Ranicki is remarkable for both his unlikely life story and his brilliant career as the "pope of German letters." His sublimely written autobiography is at once a fascinating adventure tale, an unusual account of German-Jewish relations, a personal rumination on who's who in German culture, and a love letter to literature.
Reich-Ranicki's life took him from middle-class childhood to wartime misery to the heights of intellectual celebrity. Born into a Jewish family in Poland in 1920, he moved to Berlin as a boy. There he discovered his passion for literature and began a complex affair with German culture. In 1938, his family was deported back to Poland, where German occupation forced him into the Warsaw Ghetto. As a member of the Jewish resistance, a translator for the Jewish Council, and a man who personally experienced the ghetto's inhumane conditions, Reich-Ranicki gained both a bird's-eye and ground-level view of Nazi barbarism. Written with subtlety and intelligence, his account of this episode is among the most compelling and dramatic ever recorded.
He escaped with his wife and spent two years hiding in the cellar of Polish peasants--an incident later immortalized by Günter Grass. After liberation, he joined and then fell out with the Communist Party and was temporarily imprisoned. He began writing and soon became Poland's foremost critical commentator on German literature.
When Reich-Ranicki returned to Germany in 1958, his rise was meteoric. In short order, he claimed national celebrity and notoriety as the head of the literary section of the leading newspaper and host of his own television program. He frequently flabbergasted viewers with his bold pronouncements and flexed his power to make or break a writer's career. His list of friends and enemies rapidly expanded to include every influential player on the German literary scene, including Grass and Heinrich Böll. This, together with his keen critical instincts, makes his memoir an indispensable guide to contemporary German culture as well as an absorbing eyewitness history of some of the twentieth century's most important events.
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Berlin: The Downfall 1945by Antony BeevorISBN 0670886955 (0-670-88695-5)
Hardcover, Penguin Uk
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Brigittaby Adalbert StifterISBN 0802312888 (0-8023-1288-8)
Hardcover, Dufour Editions
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Capitalby Karl Marx, Friedrich EngelsISBN 0717806219 (0-7178-0621-9)
Softcover, Intl Pub
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Capital'Book summary:This book has been specifically formated for the Amazon Kindle reader. We did our best to take advantage of all the features of the kindle to maximize your reading experience with this book. This book contains all eight volumes of Capital. An extensive treatise on political economy written in German by Karl Marx and edited in part by Friedrich Engels. The book is a critical analysis of capitalism and its practical economic application and also, in part, a critique of other related theories. Its first volume was published in 1867. [via]
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The Carpet Makersby Andreas Eschbach, Orson Scott Card, Doryl JensenISBN 0765314908 (0-7653-1490-8)
Softcover, St Martins Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Carpet Makers'Book summary:Since the time of pre-history, carpetmakers tie intricate knots to form carpets for the court of the Emperor. These carpets are made from the hairs of wives and daughters; they are so detailed and fragile that each carpetmaker finishes only one single carpet in his entire lifetime.[via]
This art descends from father to son, since the beginning of time itself.
But one day the empire of the God Emperor vanishes, and strangers begin to arrive from the stars to follow the trace of the hair carpets. What these strangers discover is beyond all belief, more than anything they could have ever imagined...
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The Carpet Makers: An Orson Scott Card Presents Bookby Andreas Eschbach, Doryl Jensen, Orson Scott CardISBN 0765305933 (0-7653-0593-3)
Hardcover, Doherty Associates, LLC, Tom
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The Catcher in the Ryeby J. D. SalingerISBN 0808514032 (0-8085-1403-2)
Hardcover, Bt Bound
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Catcher in the Rye'Book summary:Since his debut in 1951 as The Catcher in the Rye, Holden Caulfield has been synonymous with "cynical adolescent." Holden narrates the story of a couple of days in his sixteen-year-old life, just after he's been expelled from prep school, in a slang that sounds edgy even today and keeps this novel on banned book lists. It begins,
"If you really want to hear about it, the first thing you'll probably want to know is where I was born and what my lousy childhood was like, and how my parents were occupied and all before they had me, and all that David Copperfield kind of crap, but I don't feel like going into it, if you want to know the truth. In the first place, that stuff bores me, and in the second place, my parents would have about two hemorrhages apiece if I told anything pretty personal about them."
His constant wry observations about what he encounters, from teachers to phonies (the two of course are not mutually exclusive) capture the essence of the eternal teenage experience of alienation. [via]
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Softcover, Chivers North Amer - Catcher in the Rye: ISBN 0606048871 (0-606-04887-1)
Hardcover, Demco Media - The Catcher in the Rye: ISBN 0792715179 (0-7927-1517-9)
Hardcover, Curley Large Print - Catcher in the Rye: ISBN 0822070383 (0-8220-7038-3)
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The Catcher in the Rye: New Essaysby J. P. SteedISBN 0820457299 (0-8204-5729-9)
Softcover, Peter Lang Pub Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Catcher in the Rye: New Essays'Book summary:J. D. Salinger's novel, The Catcher in the Rye celebrated its fiftieth anniversary of publication in 2001. The Catcher in the Rye: New Essays presents a variety of new approaches to this extremely popular and intensely influential novel, ranging [via]
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Collins Pocket German Dictionary: German-English-English-GermanISBN 0671492225 (0-671-49222-5)
Softcover, Simon & Schuster
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Cutting Timberby Thomas Bernhard, Ewald OsersISBN 0704326558 (0-7043-2655-8)
Hardcover, Texas Bookman
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The Dog Kingby Christoph Ransmayr, John WoodsISBN 0679450572 (0-679-45057-2)
Hardcover, Knopf Publishing Group
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Dog Kingby John E. Woods, Christoph RansmayrISBN 0679768602 (0-679-76860-2)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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The Double-Bass (Bloomsbury Classics)by Michael Hofmann, Patrick SuskindISBN 0747537232 (0-7475-3723-2)
Softcover, Bloomsbury Pub Ltd
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Double-Bass (Bloomsbury Classics)'Book summary:From the author of "Perfume" and "The Pigeon", this story revolves around the narrator's relationship with his double-bass. The play has been performed all over Germany and at the Edinburgh Festival. [via]
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Dune Messiahby Frank HerbertISBN 0808520733 (0-8085-2073-3)
Hardcover, Bt Bound
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Dune Messiah'Book summary:FOR USE IN SCHOOLS AND LIBRARIES ONLY. The sisterhood of the Bene Gesserit plots to seize control of the galaxy-wide empire of their supernatural leader. [via]
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Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evilby Hannah ArendtISBN 0844659770 (0-8446-5977-0)
Hardcover, Peter Smith Pub Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil'Book summary:While living in Argentina in 1960, Nazi leader Adolf Eichmann was kidnapped and smuggled to Israel where he was put on trial for crimes against humanity. The New Yorker magazine sent Hannah Arendt to cover the trial. While covering the technical aspects of the trial, Arendt also explored the wider themes inherent in the trial, such as the nature of justice, the behavior of the Jewish leadership during the Nazi Régime, and, most controversially, the nature of Evil itself.
Far from being evil incarnate, as the prosecution painted Eichmann, Arendt maintains that he was an average man, a petty bureaucrat interested only in furthering his career, and the evil he did came from the seductive power of the totalitarian state and an unthinking adherence to the Nazi cause. Indeed, Eichmann's only defense during the trial was "I was just following orders."
Arendt's analysis of the seductive nature of evil is a disturbing one. We would like to think that anyone who would perpetrate such horror on the world is different from us, and that such atrocities are rarities in our world. But the history of groups such as the Jews, Kurds, Bosnians, and Native Americans, to name but a few, seems to suggest that such evil is all too commonplace. In revealing Eichmann as the pedestrian little man that he was, Arendt shows us that the veneer of civilization is a thin one indeed. [via]
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Hardcover, Viking Press - Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil: ISBN 0844659770 (0-8446-5977-0)
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Ekkehard: A Novelby Joseph Viktor von Scheffel, Rudolf TomboISBN 0804468028 (0-8044-6802-8)
Hardcover, F. Ungar Pub Co
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End of a Missionby Heinrich Boll, Leila VennewitzISBN 0810111489 (0-8101-1148-9)
Softcover, Northwestern Univ Pr
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The Fall of Berlin 1945by Antony BeevorISBN 0670030414 (0-670-03041-4)
Hardcover, Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Fall of Berlin 1945'Book summary:By December 1944, many of the 3 million citizens of Berlin had stopped giving the Nazi salute, and jokes circulated that the most practical Christmas gift of the season was a coffin. And for good reason, military historian Antony Beevor writes in this richly detailed reconstruction of events in the final days of Adolf Hitler's Berlin. Following savage years of campaigns in Russia, the Nazi regime had not only failed to crush Bolshevism, it had brought the Soviet army to the very gates of the capital. That army, ill-fed and hungry for vengeance, unloosed its fury on Berlin just a month later in a long siege that would cost hundreds of thousands of lives on both sides. But as Beevor recounts, the siege was also marked by remarkable acts of courage and even compassion. Drawing on unexplored Soviet and German archives and dozens of eyewitness accounts, Beevor brings us a harrowing portrait of the battle and its terrible aftermath, which would color world history for years to follow. --Gregory McNamee [via]
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Further Germanby Paul Coggle, Susanne StaabISBN 0844238856 (0-8442-3885-6)
Softcover, Ntc Pub Group
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General Introduction to Psychoanalysis the Authoriby Sigmund FreudISBN 0671204181 (0-671-20418-1)
Softcover, Simon & Schuster
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› Find signed collectible books: 'General Introduction to Psychoanalysis the Authori'Book summary:Book may have numerous typos, missing text, images, or index. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. 1920. Not illustrated. Excerpt: ... FIRST LECTURE INTRODUCTION I DO not know how familiar some of you may be, either from your reading or from hearsay, with psychoanalysis. But, in keeping with the title of these lectures -- A General Introduction to Psychoanalysis -- I am obliged to proceed as though you knew nothing about this subject, and stood in need of preliminary instruction. To be sure, this much I may presume that you do know, namely, that psychoanalysis is a method of treating nervous patients medically. And just at this point I can give you au example to illustrate how the procedure in this field is precisely the reverse of that which is the rule in medicine. Usually when we introduce a patient to a medical technique which is strange to him, we minimize its difficulties and give him confident promises concerning the result of the treatment. When, however, we undertake psychoanalytic treatment with a neurotic patient we proceed differently. We hold before him the difficulties of the method, its length, the exertions and the sacrifices which it will cost him; and, as to the result, we tell him that we make no definite promises, that the result depends on his conduct, on his understanding, on his adaptability, on his perseverance. We have, of course, excellent motives for conduct which seems so perverse, and into which you will perhaps gain insight at a later point in these lectures. Do not be offended, therefore, if, for the present, I treat you as I treat these neurotic patients. Frankly, I shall dissuade you from coming to hear me a second time. With this intention I shall show what imperfections are necessarily involved in the teaching of psychoanalysis and what difficulties stand in the way of gaining a personal judgment. I shall show you how the whole trend of your previous training and ... [via]
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German Grammarby Norman PaxtonISBN 0844237817 (0-8442-3781-7)
Softcover, Teach Yourself
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German Verb Drillsby Atrid Henschel, Harry A. WalbruckISBN 0844220493 (0-8442-2049-3)
Softcover, McGraw-Hill
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› Find signed collectible books: 'German Verb Drills'Book summary:Combining the features of a textbook, workbook, and a self-study manual, "German Verb Drills" clearly and systematically explains how the German verb system works, while providing numerous and varied exercises for thorough practice of each point covered. In addition, the exercise Answer Key at the back of the book provides invaluable support when learners need to clarify a concept immediately. Regular reviews also reinforce learning. [via]
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A Great Deliveranceby Elizabeth GeorgeISBN 0553278029 (0-553-27802-9)
Softcover, Bantam Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'A Great Deliverance'Book summary:To this day, the low, thin wail of an infant can be heard in Keldale's lush green valleys. Three hundred years ago, as legend goes, the frightened Yorkshire villagers smothered a crying babe in Keldale Abbey, where they'd hidden to escape the ravages of Cromwell's raiders.
Now into Keldale's pastoral web of old houses and older secrets comes Scotland Yard Inspector Thomas Lynley, the eighth earl of Asherton. Along with the redoubtable Detective Sergeant Barbara Havers, Lynley has been sent to solve a savage murder that has stunned the peaceful countryside. For fat, unlovely Roberta Teys has been found in her best dress, an axe in her lap, seated in the old stone barn beside her father's headless corpse. Her first and last words were "I did it. And I'm not sorry."
Yet as Lynley and Havers wind their way through Keldale's dark labyrinth of secret scandals and appalling crimes, they uncover a shattering series of revelations that will reverberate through this tranquil English valleyand in their own lives as well.
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Introduction to the Philosophy of Historyby HegelISBN 0872200566 (0-87220-056-6)
Softcover, Hackett Pub Co Inc
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Introduction to Theological Germanby J. D. MantonISBN 0802815146 (0-8028-1514-6)
Softcover, Eerdmans Pub Co
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Introductory Lectures on Psycho-Analysisby Sigmund Freud, James StracheyISBN 0871401185 (0-87140-118-5)
Softcover, Liveright Pub Corp
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Introductory Lectures on Psycho-Analysis'Book summary:In 1915 at the University of Vienna 60-year-old Sigmund Freud delivered these lectures on psychoanalysis, pointing to the interplay of unconscious and conscious forces within individual psyches.In reasoned progression he outlined core psychoanalytic concepts, such as repression, free association and libido. Of the various English translations of Freud's major works to appear in his lifetime, only one was authorized by Freud himself: The Standard Edition of the Complete Psychological Works of Sigmund Freud under the general editorship of James Strachey. Freud approved the overall editorial plan, specific renderings of key words and phrases, and the addition of valuable notes, from bibliographical and explanatory. Many of the translations were done by Strachey himself; the rest were prepared under his supervision. The result was to place the Standard Edition in a position of unquestioned supremacy over all other existing versions. Newly designed in a uniform format, each new paperback in the Standard Edition opens with a biographical essay on Freud's life and work -along with a note on the individual volume-by Peter Gay, Sterling Professor of History at Yale. [via]
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J.D. Salinger's Catcher in the Ryeby Harold BloomISBN 0791056643 (0-7910-5664-3)
Hardcover, Facts on File
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J.D. Salinger's the Catcher in the Ryeby J. D. SalingerISBN 0671006916 (0-671-00691-6)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'J.D. Salinger's the Catcher in the Rye'Book summary:Plot synopsis of this classic is made meaningful with analysis and quotes by noted literary critics, summaries of the work's main themes and characters, a sketch of the author's life and times, a bibliography, suggested test questions, and ideas for essays and term papers. [via]
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Jakob the Liarby Jurek BeckerISBN 0805240977 (0-8052-4097-7)
Hardcover, Random House Inc
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Jenny Treibelby Theodor FontaneISBN 0804461546 (0-8044-6154-6)
Softcover, Continuum Intl Pub Group
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Marx's Capitalby C. J. Arthur, Karl MarxISBN 0853157774 (0-85315-777-4)
Softcover, University of British Columbia Press
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Marx's Capital'Book summary:Karl Marx's Capital is the classic text of Marxism for economists, social scientists, philosophers, students and political activists alike. But the sheer extent of Marx's great work of political economy has often daunted readers, and hampered their understanding of his ideas. Chris Arthur has substantially edited and abridged Marx's monumental work, eliminating the more arcane polemics, the scholarly footnotes, statistical data and mathematical formulae. He leaves intact and clarified Marx's main theoretical arguments and the historical information which supports them. 'Chris Arthur has solved the problem of slimming down Capital with exceptional success' EJ Hobsbawm 'A skilful abridgement...approachable and readable' Sean Sayers, Political Studies [via]
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The Metamorphosesby Ovid, Frank Justus MillerISBN 0674990463 (0-674-99046-3)
Hardcover, Harvard Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Metamorphoses'Book summary:Ovid (Publius Ovidius Naso, 43 BCE17 CE), born at Sulmo, studied rhetoric and law at Rome. Later he did considerable public service there, and otherwise devoted himself to poetry and to society. Famous at first, he offended the emperor Augustus by his Ars Amatoria, and was banished because of this work and some other reason unknown to us, and dwelt in the cold and primitive town of Tomis on the Black Sea. He continued writing poetry, a kindly man, leading a temperate life. He died in exile.
Ovid's main surviving works are the Metamorphoses, a source of inspiration to artists and poets including Chaucer and Shakespeare; the Fasti, a poetic treatment of the Roman year of which Ovid finished only half; the Amores, love poems; the Ars Amatoria, not moral but clever and in parts beautiful; Heroides, fictitious love letters by legendary women to absent husbands; and the dismal works written in exile: the Tristia, appeals to persons including his wife and also the emperor; and similar Epistulae ex Ponto. Poetry came naturally to Ovid, who at his best is lively, graphic and lucid.
The Loeb Classical Library edition of Ovid is in six volumes.
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The Metamorphoses of Ovidby David R. Slavitt, OvidISBN 0801847982 (0-8018-4798-2)
Softcover, Johns Hopkins Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Metamorphoses of Ovid'Book summary:First published in 8 A.D. when he was 52, Ovid's epic poem contains profoundly entertaining tales of Adonis, Midas, Apollo, Icarus, and many others. (Poetry) [via]
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The Metamorphoses of Ovid: An English Versionby Publius Ovidius NasoISBN 0865470197 (0-86547-019-7)
Softcover, Farrar Straus & Giroux
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Metamorphoses of Ovid: An English Version'Book summary:[via]Ovid is a poet to enjoy, declares William S. Anderson in his introduction to this textbook. And Andersons skillful introduction and enlightening textual commentary will indeed make it a joy to use.
In these books Ovid begins to leave the conflict between men and the gods to concentrate on the relations among human beings. Subjects of the stories include Arachne and Niobe; Tereus, Procne, and Philomela; Medea and Jason; Orpheus and Eurydice; and many others, familiar and unfamiliar. For students of Latin-and teachers, too-they provide an interesting experience.
In his introduction the editor discusses Ovids career, the reputation of the Metamorphoses during Ovids time and after, and the various manuscripts that exist or have been known to exist. He describes the general plan of the poem, its main theme, and the problem of its tone. Technical matters, such as style and meter, are also considered. In notes the editor summarizes the story being told before proceeding to the line-by-line textual comments.
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Mort Big Comicby PratchettISBN 0575056991 (0-575-05699-1)
Softcover, McClelland & Stewart Ltd
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Mort Big Comic'Book summary:An illustrated version of one of Terry Pratchett's comic science-fiction novels. Mort has been chosen as Death's apprentice. He gets board and lodging, free use of company horse, and doesn't even need time off for his grandmother's funeral. Looking like a skeleton is not compulsory, either. [via]
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The New Schoffler-Weis German and English Dictionaryby Weis, SchofflerISBN 0844228788 (0-8442-2878-8)
Hardcover, McGraw-Hill
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Old Mastersby Thomas Bernhard, Ewald OsersISBN 0704327104 (0-7043-2710-4)
Hardcover, Texas Bookman
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Ovid's Metamorphosesby Ovid, William S. AndersonISBN 0806114568 (0-8061-1456-8)
Softcover, Univ of Oklahoma Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Ovid's Metamorphoses'Book summary:One of the most influential and popular works in all literature, Ovids Metamorphoses is a weaving-together of classical myths, extending in time from the creation of the world to the death of Julius Caesar. This volume provides the Latin text of the first five books of the poem and the most detailed commentary available in English for these books.[via]In his introduction to the volume, editor William S. Anderson provides essential background information, discussing Ovids life, the reception of the Metamorphoses during Ovids day and after, and the poems central issues. The Latin text of the five books is Andersons own edition, based on years of study of the surviving manuscripts. In the extensive notes that follow the text, Anderson offers both useful summaries of the stories and detailed line-by-line comments.
Unlike other epic poems, which concern wars and heroism, the Metamorphoses centers on ordinary human beings, women as well as men, who live in a world of continuous change. The first five books, which include such well-known stories as Apollo and Daphane, Diana and Actaeon, and Narcissus and Echo, deal especially with the relationship between human beings and the gods. Arrogant and lustful, but all-powerful, the gods of Ovids universe selfishly pursue their own pleasures, frequently at the expense of their human targets. Yet these gods escape unscathed, while the humans, unjustly, are punished. Helpless to defend themselves, they are changed into animal or nonhuman forms.
A resource for students and scholars of Latin, this volume enhances understanding and enjoyment of Ovids changeable poem about our changeable existence.
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Ovid's Metamorphosesby Arthur GoldingISBN 0801870607 (0-8018-7060-7)
Softcover, Johns Hopkins Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Ovid's Metamorphoses'Book summary:This landmark translation of Ovid was acclaimed by Ezra Pound as "the most beautiful book in the language (my opinion and I suspect it was Shakespeare's)". Ovid's deliciously witty and poignant epic starts with the creation of the world and brings together a series of ingeniously linked myths and legends in which men and women are transformedoften by loveinto flowers, trees, stones, and stars. Golding's robustly vernacular version was the first major English translation and decisively influenced Shakespeare, Spenser, and the character of English Renaissance writing.
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Ovid's Metamorphoses: Books 1-5by Ovid, William S. AndersonISBN 0806128453 (0-8061-2845-3)
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Ovid's Metamorphosis Englished, Mythologized, and Represented in Figuresby Ovid, George SandysISBN 0803207182 (0-8032-0718-2)
Hardcover, University of Nebraska Press
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Philosophy of Historyby George Hegel, J. SibreeISBN 0760757631 (0-7607-5763-1)
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The Piano Teacherby Elfriede Jelinek, Joachim NeugroschelISBN 0802118062 (0-8021-1806-2)
Hardcover, Grove Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Piano Teacher'Book summary:The Piano Teacher, the most famous novel of Elfriede Jelinek, who was awarded the 2004 Nobel Prize in Literature, is a shocking, searing, aching portrait of a woman bound between a repressive society and her darkest desires.[via]
Erika Kohut is a piano teacher at the prestigious and formal Vienna Conservatory, who still lives with her domineering and possessive mother. Her life appears to be a seamless tissue of boredom, but Erika, a quiet thirty-eight-year-old, secretly visits Turkish peep shows at night to watch live sex shows and sadomasochistic films. Meanwhile, a handsome, self-absorbed, seventeen-year-old student has become enamored with Erika and sets out to seduce her. She resists him at first, but then the dark passions roiling under the piano teacher's subdued exterior explode in a release of sexual perversity, suppressed violence, and human degradation.
Celebrated throughout Europe for the intensity and frankness of her writings and awarded the Heinrich Böll Prize for her outstanding contribution to German letters, Elfriede Jelinek is one of the most original and controversial writers in the world today. The Piano Teacher was made into a film, released in the United States in 2001, was awarded the Grand Jury Prize at Cannes.More editions of The Piano Teacher:
The Safety Netby Heinrich Boll, Leila VennewitzISBN 0810112108 (0-8101-1210-8)
Softcover, Northwestern Univ Pr
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Schindler's Listby Thomas KeneallyISBN 0582788943 (0-582-78894-3)
Softcover, Longman Cheshire Pty Ltd
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Schindler's List Piano Solosby John WilliamsISBN 0793532779 (0-7935-3277-9)
Softcover, Hal Leonard Corp
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The Seventh Crossby Anna SeghersISBN 0853457123 (0-85345-712-3)
Softcover, New York Univ Pr
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Shakespeare's Ovid: Being Arthur Golding's Translation of the Metamorphosesby Ovid, Arthur Golding, W.H.D. RouseISBN 0809300621 (0-8093-0062-1)
Hardcover, Southern Illinois University Press
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A Soldier's Legacyby Heinrich Boll, Leila VennewitzISBN 0810112027 (0-8101-1202-7)
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South of the Border, West of the Sunby Haruki MurakamiISBN 0679767398 (0-679-76739-8)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'South of the Border, West of the Sun'Book summary:In South of the Border, West of the Sun, the arc of an average man's life from childhood to middle age, with its attendant rhythms of success and disappointment, becomes the kind of exquisite literary conundrum that is Haruki Murakami's trademark. The plot is simple: Hajime meets and falls in love with a girl in elementary school, but he loses touch with her when his family moves to another town. He drifts through high school, college, and his 20s, before marrying and settling into a career as a successful bar owner. Then his childhood sweetheart returns, weighed down with secrets:
When I went back into the bar, a glass and ashtray remained where she had been. A couple of lightly crushed cigarette butts were lined up in the ashtray, a faint trace of lipstick on each. I sat down and closed my eyes. Echoes of music faded away, leaving me alone. In that gentle darkness, the rain continued to fall without a sound.
Murakami eschews the fantastic elements that appear in many of his other novels and stories, and readers hoping for a glimpse of the Sheep Man will be disappointed. Yet South of the Border, West of the Sun is as rich and mysterious as anything he has written. It is above all a complex, moving, and honest meditation on the nature of love, distilled into a work with the crystal clarity of a short story. A Nat "King" Cole song, a figure on a crowded street, a face pressed against a car window, a handful of ashes drifting down a river to the sea are woven together into a story that refuses to arrive at a simple conclusion. The classic love triangle may seem like a hackneyed theme for a writer as talented as Murakami, but in his quietly dazzling way, he bends us to his own unique geometry. --Simon Leake [via]More editions of South of the Border, West of the Sun:
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The Threepenny Operaby Kurt WeillISBN 080215039X (0-8021-5039-X)
Softcover, Grove Pr
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Unfashionable Observationsby Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Richard T. GrayISBN 0804723826 (0-8047-2382-6)
Hardcover, Stanford Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Unfashionable Observations'Book summary:This new translation is the first to be published in a twenty-volume English-language edition of The Complete Works of Friedrich Nietzsche, the first complete, critical, and annotated translation of all of Nietzsche's work. The Stanford edition is based on the Colli-Montinari edition, which has received universal praise: "It has revolutionized our understanding of one of the greatest German thinkers"; "Scholars can be confident for the first time of having a trustworthy text."[via]
Under the title Unzeitgemässe Betrachtungen, Nietzsche collected four essays published separately between 1873 and 1876: "David Strauss the Confessor and the Writer," "On the Utility and Liability of History for Life," "Schopenhauer as Educator," and "Richard Wagner in Bayreuth." The title, newly translated as Unfashionable Observations, spells out the common impulse linking these essays: Nietzsche's inimical attitude toward his "time," understood broadly as all the mainstream and popular movements that constituted contemporary European, but especially German, "culture" in the wake of the Prussian military victory over the French in 1871.
The Unfashionable Observations are foundational works for Nietzsche's entire philosophy, prefiguring both his characteristic philosophical style and many of the major ideas he would develop in his later writings. This is the first English translation to include Nietzsche's variants to the published text.More editions of Unfashionable Observations:
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Unfashionable Observationsby Richard T. GrayISBN 0804734038 (0-8047-3403-8)
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Under the title Unzeitgemässe Betrachtungen, Nietzsche collected four essays published separately between 1873 and 1876: "David Strauss the Confessor and the Writer," "On the Utility and Liability of History for Life," "Schopenhauer as Educator," and "Richard Wagner in Bayreuth." The title, newly translated as Unfashionable Observations, spells out the common impulse linking these essays: Nietzsche's inimical attitude toward his "time," understood broadly as all the mainstream and popular movements that constituted contemporary European, but especially German, "culture" in the wake of the Prussian military victory over the French in 1871.
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Urfaustby Johann Wolfgang Von GoetheISBN 081200213X (0-8120-0213-X)
Softcover, Barrons Educational Series Inc
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Venus in Fursby Joachim Neugroschel, Leopold Sacher-MasochISBN 0760763089 (0-7607-6308-9)
Softcover, Barnes & Noble Books
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Venus in Fursby Leopold Sacher-MasochISBN 0722158874 (0-7221-5887-4)
Hardcover, Sphere Books
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Where the Wild Things Areby Maurice SendakISBN 0694004316 (0-694-00431-6)
Hardcover, HarperCollins Canada, Limited
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Where the Wild Things Are'Book summary:Where the Wild Things Are is one of those truly rare books that can be enjoyed equally by a child and a grown-up. If you disagree, then it's been too long since you've attended a wild rumpus. Max dons his wolf suit in pursuit of some mischief and gets sent to bed without supper. Fortuitously, a forest grows in his room, allowing his wild rampage to continue unimpaired. Sendak's color illustrations (perhaps his finest) are beautiful, and each turn of the page brings the discovery of a new wonder.
The wild things--with their mismatched parts and giant eyes--manage somehow to be scary-looking without ever really being scary; at times they're downright hilarious. Sendak's defiantly run-on sentences--one of his trademarks--lend the perfect touch of stream of consciousness to the tale, which floats between the land of dreams and a child's imagination.
This Sendak classic is more fun than you've ever had in a wolf suit, and it manages to reaffirm the notion that there's no place like home. [via]
The White Rose : Munich, 1942-1943by Inge Scholl, Arthur R. Schultz, Dorothee SoelleISBN 0819560863 (0-8195-6086-3)
Softcover, Wesleyan University Press
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The World As Will and Representationby Arthur SchopenhauerISBN 0844628859 (0-8446-2885-9)
Hardcover, Peter Smith Pub Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The World As Will and Representation'Book summary:[via]Volume 1 of the definitive English translation of one of the most important philosophical works of the 19th century, the basic statement in one important stream of post-Kantian thought. Corrects nearly 1,000 errors and omissions in the older Haldane-Kemp translation. For the first time, this edition translates and locates all quotes and provides full index.More editions of The World As Will and Representation:
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Woyzeck: Leonce Und Lenaby Georg BuchnerISBN 0844229458 (0-8442-2945-8)
Softcover, Philip Reclam Jun Verlag Gmbh
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Lonely Planet German Phrasebookby Franziska Buck, Anke MunderlohISBN 0864424515 (0-86442-451-5)
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