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Aesthetic Judgment and the Moral Image of the World: Studies in Kantby Dieter HenrichISBN 0804723672 (0-8047-2367-2)
Softcover, Stanford Univ Pr
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Anatomy of Human Destructivenessby Erich FrommISBN 080501604X (0-8050-1604-X)
Softcover, Henry Holt & Co
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Baal: A Man's a Man and the Elephant Calf Early Plays by Bertolt Brechtby Eric Bentley, Bertolt BrechtISBN 080213159X (0-8021-3159-X)
Softcover, Grove Pr
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The Battle: A New History Of Waterlooby Alessandro BarberoISBN 0802715001 (0-8027-1500-1)
Softcover, St Martins Pr
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Battle: The Story of the Bulgeby John TolandISBN 0803294379 (0-8032-9437-9)
Softcover, Univ of Nebraska Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Battle: The Story of the Bulge'Book summary:'The perspective of 15 years, painstaking research, thousands of interviews, extensive analysis and evaluation, and the creative talent of John Toland [paint] the epic struggle on an immense canvas...Toland writes with the authority of a man who was there...He tastes the bitterness of defeat of those who surrendered and writes as if he had the benefit of the eyes and ears of soldiers and generals on the other side of the line...If you could read only one book to understand generals and GIs and what their different wars were like this is the book' - "Chicago Sunday Tribune". 'The author has devoted years to studying memoirs, interviewing veterans and consulting military documents, both German and American. He also has revisited the old battlefields in Belgium and Luxembourg...Toland has told the whole story with dramatic realism...It is a story of panic, terror and of high-hearted courage' - "New York Times Book Review". 'For the first time in the growing literature of World War II, the inspiring story of the stubborn, lonely, dogged battle of the Americans locked in this tragic salient is told...gripping ...You cannot put it down once you start it' - "San Francisco Chronicle". John Toland has written numerous books on World War II, including "Infamy: Pearl Harbor and Its Aftermath". Carlo D'Este is the author of "Patton: A Genius for War" and other works. [via]
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Berlin in Lights: The Diaries of Count Harry Kessler, 1918-1937by Harry KesslerISBN 080213839X (0-8021-3839-X)
Softcover, Grove Pr
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A Berlin Republic: Writings on Germanyby Jurgen Habermas, Steven Rendall, Peter Uwe HohendahlISBN 0803273061 (0-8032-7306-1)
Softcover, Univ of Nebraska Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'A Berlin Republic: Writings on Germany'Book summary:A Berlin Republic (Die Normalität einer Berliner Republik) brings together writings on the new, united Germany by one of that countrys most original and trenchant commentators, Jürgen Habermas. Among other topics, Habermas addresses the consequences of German history, the challenges and perils of the post-Wall era, and Germanys place in contemporary Europe.Here, as in his earlier Past as Future, Habermas emerges as an inspired analyst of contemporary German political and intellectual life. He repeatedly criticizes recent efforts by historians and political commentators to normalize and, in part, to understate the horrors of modern German history. He insists that 1945not 1989was the crucial turning point in German history, since it was then that West Germany decisively repudiated certain aspects of its cultural and political past (nationalism and anti-Semitism in particular) and turned toward Western traditions of democracy, free and open discussion, and respect for the civil rights of all individuals. Similarly, Habermas deplores the renewal of nationalist sentiment in Germany and throughout Europe. Drawing upon his vast historical knowledge and contemporary insight, Habermas argues for heightened emphasis on trans-European and global democratic institutionsinstitutions far better suited to meet the challenges (and dangers) of the next century.[via]More editions of A Berlin Republic: Writings on Germany:
The Boys: The Story of 732 Young Concentration Camp Survivorsby Martin GilbertISBN 0805044035 (0-8050-4403-5)
Softcover, Holt & Company, Henry
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Brandenburg Gateby Henry PorterISBN 0802143148 (0-8021-4314-8)
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Can One Live After Auschwitz: A Philosophical Readerby Theodor W. Adorno, Rolf TiedemannISBN 0804731446 (0-8047-3144-6)
Softcover, Stanford Univ Pr
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What took place in Auschwitz revokes what Adorno termed the Western legacy of positivity, the innermost substance of traditional philosophy. The prime task of philosophy then remains to reflect on its own failure, its own complicity in such events. Yet in linking the question of philosophy to historical occurrence, Adorno seems not to have abandoned his paradoxical, life-long hope that philosophy might not be entirely closed to the idea of redemption. He prepares for an altogether different praxis, one no longer conceived in traditionally Marxist terms but rather to be gleaned from metaphysical experience.
In this collection, Adorno's literary executor has assembled the definitive introduction to his thinking. Its five sections anatomize the range of Adorno's concerns: Toward a New Categorical Imperative, Damaged Life, Administered World, Reified Thought, Art, Memory of Suffering, and A Philosophy That Keeps Itself Alive.
A substantial number of Adornos writings included appear here in English for the first time. This collection comes with an eloquent introduction from Rolf Tiedemann, the literary executor of Adornos work.More editions of Can One Live After Auschwitz: A Philosophical Reader:
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Candideby Francois M. VoltaireISBN 0804901171 (0-8049-0117-1)
Softcover, Airmont Pub Co
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Candide'Book summary:Political satire doesn't age well, but occasionally a diatribe contains enough art and universal mirth to survive long after its timeliness has passed. Candide is such a book. Penned by that Renaissance man of the Enlightenment, Voltaire, Candide is steeped in the political and philosophical controversies of the 1750s. But for the general reader, the novel's driving principle is clear enough: the idea (endemic in Voltaire's day) that we live in the best of all possible worlds, and apparent folly, misery and strife are actually harbingers of a greater good we cannot perceive, is hogwash.
Telling the tale of the good-natured but star-crossed Candide (think Mr. Magoo armed with deadly force), as he travels the world struggling to be reunited with his love, Lady Cunegonde, the novel smashes such ill-conceived optimism to splinters. Candide's tutor, Dr. Pangloss, is steadfast in his philosophical good cheer, in the face of more and more fantastic misfortune; Candide's other companions always supply good sense in the nick of time. Still, as he demolishes optimism, Voltaire pays tribute to human resilience, and in doing so gives the book a pleasant indomitability common to farce. Says one character, a princess turned one-buttocked hag by unkind Fate: "I have wanted to kill myself a hundred times, but somehow I am still in love with life. This ridiculous weakness is perhaps one of our most melancholy propensities; for is there anything more stupid than to be eager to go on carrying a burden which one would gladly throw away, to loathe one's very being and yet to hold it fast, to fondle the snake that devours us until it has eaten our hearts away?"--Michael Gerber [via]
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The Cult of Art in Nazi Germanyby Janet Lloyd, Eric MichaudISBN 0804743274 (0-8047-4327-4)
Softcover, Stanford Univ Pr
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Das Reich: The March of the 2nd Ss Panzer Division Through Franceby Max HastingsISBN 0805014071 (0-8050-1407-1)
Softcover, Henry Holt & Co
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Daytrips in Germany: 50 One Day Adventures by Rail or Carby Earl SteinbickerISBN 0803815840 (0-8038-1584-0)
Softcover, Hastings House
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The Deputyby Rolf Hochhuth, Albert Schweitzer, Richard Winston, Clara WinstonISBN 0802142427 (0-8021-4242-7)
Softcover, Grove Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Deputy'Book summary:Upon its premiere, The Deputy stirred up more controversy and caused greater repercussions than any other postwar work. Based on Rolf Hochhuth's research into the Vatican activities during World War II, the play's treatment of Pope Pius XII the "deputy" of Christ on earth and the Church during the Nazi persecution of the Jews made it the object of impassioned praise and violent denunciation. It is a powerful, shocking work that casts a penetrating eye on the role that supposed moral leaders must play in times of great humanitarian crises.[via]More editions of The Deputy:
Diaries of Franz Kafka 1914-1923by Franz KafkaISBN 0805204253 (0-8052-0425-3)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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Dr. Eckener's Dream Machine: The Great Zeppelin and the Dawn of Air Travelby Douglas BottingISBN 0805064591 (0-8050-6459-1)
Softcover, Holt & Company, Henry
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The first dirigible, invented by Ferdinand von Zeppelin, was launched in 1900. It was another German, Dr. Hugo Eckener, however, who recognized and developed the potential of this vehicle as a viable commercial craft. By the late-1930s airships nearly 800 feet long had not only circumnavigated the globe but were regularly transporting passengers and mail from Europe to South America and the United States. Though the end of these vehicles commercial viability was preordained by rapid advances in airplane technology, Eckener's hopes were abruptly and finally ended with the fiery 1937 crash of the Hindenburg over Lakehurst, New Jersey. Botting briefly sketches the history and technology of lighter-than-air ships, but his enthusiasms are most apparent in detailed and novelistic narratives of various voyages, specially the 1929 circumnavigation by the Graf Zeppelin and the last trip of the Hindenburg. He is clearly enthusiastic about airships--sometimes overly so--but concludes, like Eckener, that they occupied, at best, a brief niche in air travel.
Botting's book is somewhat uneven. He is at his best when conveying the thrills, dangers and beauty of the voyages themselves and showing how Eckener and his ships were victims of politics as much as highly inflammable hydrogen. His discussions of history and technology are less adept, but the book in the end is a brisk and at times engaging primer of a wondrous and mostly forgotten aeronautical era. --H. O'Billovitch [via]
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Egmont: A Tragedy in Five Actsby Johann Wolfgang Von GoetheISBN 0804461856 (0-8044-6185-6)
Softcover, Continuum Intl Pub Group
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Encounters Between Judaism and Modern Philosophy : A Preface to Future Jewish Thoughtby Emil L. FackenheimISBN 0805206566 (0-8052-0656-6)
Softcover, Knopf Publishing Group
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Essays in the Theory of Societyby Ralf DahrendorfISBN 0804702888 (0-8047-0288-8)
Softcover, Stanford Univ Pr
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Evolutionary Socialism : A Criticism and Affirmationby Eduard Bernstein, S. HookISBN 0805200118 (0-8052-0011-8)
Softcover, Knopf Publishing Group
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Facing the Extreme: Moral Life in the Concentration Campsby Tzvetan TodorovISBN 0805042644 (0-8050-4264-4)
Softcover, Holt & Company, Henry
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Facing the Extreme: Moral Life in the Concentration Camps'Book summary:It is an understatement to call the Nazi and Soviet death camps "outposts of hell on earth," as we know from the testimony of a powerful body of witnesses. Todorov looks inside these camps, and there he finds hope for all humankind, arguing that innumerable instances of heroism, self-sacrifice, and caring show that "moral reactions are spontaneous, omnipresent, and eradicable only with the greatest violence" and that "morality cannot disappear without a radical mutation of the human species." Even in a regime of terror and depersonalization, the ordinary virtues survived and sometimes even flourished, Todorov maintains. His wide-ranging study bears him out, and it makes for fascinating reading. [via]
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Fascism's Return: Scandal, Revision, and Ideology Since 1980by Richard Joseph GolsanISBN 0803270712 (0-8032-7071-2)
Softcover, Univ of Nebraska Pr
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G.W.F. Hegel: Modernity and Politicsby Fred R. DallmayrISBN 0803936168 (0-8039-3616-8)
Softcover, Sage Pubns Pvt Ltd
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The German Home Front, 1939-45by Terry C. CharmanISBN 0802225683 (0-8022-2568-3)
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Hansel and Gretelby Brothers Grimm, Jacob GrimmISBN 0803734913 (0-8037-3491-3)
Hardcover, Penguin Group USA
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Hansel and Gretelby Jacob Grimm, Brothers GrimmISBN 080370318X (0-8037-0318-X)
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Heidegger's Volk: Between National Socialism And Poetryby James PhillipsISBN 0804750718 (0-8047-5071-8)
Softcover, Stanford Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Heidegger's Volk: Between National Socialism And Poetry'Book summary:In 1933 the philosopher Martin Heidegger declared his allegiance to Hitler. Ever since, scholars have asked to what extent his work is implicated in Nazism. To address this question properly involves neither conflating Nazism and the continuing philosophical project that is Heidegger's legacy, nor absolving Heidegger and, in the process, turning a deaf ear to what he himself called the philosophical motivations for his political engagement. It is important to establish the terms on which Heidegger aligned himself with National Socialism. On the basis of an untimely but by no means unprecedented understanding of the mission of the German people, the philosopher first joined but then also criticized the movement. An exposition of Heidegger's conception of Volk hence can and must treat its merits and deficiencies as a response to the enduring impasse in contemporary political philosophy of the dilemma between liberalism and authoritarianism.[via]More editions of Heidegger's Volk: Between National Socialism And Poetry:
Heineby Ritchie RobertsonISBN 0802131484 (0-8021-3148-4)
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The Hiding Placeby John Sherrill, Elizabeth Sherrill, Corrie Ten BoomISBN 0802727115 (0-8027-2711-5)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Hiding Place'Book summary:I pray that God forgive them...
Corrie Ten Boom stood naked with her older sister Betsie, watching a concentration camp matron beating a prisoner. Oh, the poor woman, Corrie cried. Yes. May God forgive her, Betsie replied. And, once again, Corrie realized that it was for the souls of the brutal Nazi guards that her sister prayed.
Both woman had been sent to the camp for helping the Jews. Christs Spirit and words were their guide; it was His persecuted people they tried to saveat the risk of their own lives; it was His strength that sustained them through times of profound horror.
Here is a book aglow with the glory of God and the courage of a quiet Christian spinster whose life was transformed by it. A story of Christs message and the courage woman who listened and lived to pass it alongwith joy and triumph! [via]More editions of The Hiding Place:
History of the Christian Church: German Reformationby Phillip SchaffISBN 0802880533 (0-8028-8053-3)
Hardcover, Eerdmans Pub Co
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Hitler's Beneficiaries: Plunder, Race War, and the Nazi Welfare Stateby Gotz Aly, Jefferson ChaseISBN 0805079262 (0-8050-7926-2)
Hardcover, Metropolitan Books
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Hitler's Cross: The Revealing Story of How the Cross of Christ Was Used As a Symbol of the Nazi Agendaby Erwin W. LutzerISBN 0802435831 (0-8024-3583-1)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Hitler's Cross: The Revealing Story of How the Cross of Christ Was Used As a Symbol of the Nazi Agenda'Book summary:Six million Jews...dead. The monstrosity of Adolph Hitler's 'Third Reich' remains a stunning chapter in the pages of history. Although the power by which he hypnotized an entire nation is legendary, one question in particular begs an answer: Where was the church of Christ? Seduced by the Satanic majesty of The Fuhrer, church leaders throughout Germany allowed the Swastika a prominent place alongside the Christian cross in their sanctuaries. Nationalistic pride replaced the call of God to purity, and with few exceptions, the German church looked away while Adolph Hitler implemented his 'Final Solution' to his Jewish problem. How did this happen? In Hitler's Cross, Erwin W. Lutzer examines the lessons that may be learned from studying the deception of the church: the dangers of confusing "e;church and state,"e; how the church lost its focus, the role of God in human tragedy, the parameters of Satan's freedom, the truth behind Hitler's hatred of the Jews, the faithfulness of God to His people who suffer for Him, the comparisons between Hitler's rise and the coming reign of the Antichrist, and America's hidden cross-her dangerous trends. Hitler's Cross is the story of a nation whose church forgot its primary call and discovered its failure too late.[via]More editions of Hitler's Cross: The Revealing Story of How the Cross of Christ Was Used As a Symbol of the Nazi Agenda:
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Hitler's Generalsby Corelli BarnettISBN 0802139949 (0-8021-3994-9)
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The Idea of Form: Rethinking Kant's Aestheticsby Rodolphe GascheISBN 0804746214 (0-8047-4621-4)
Softcover, Stanford Univ Pr
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The Jewish Wife, and Other Short Playsby Bertolt BrechtISBN 0802150985 (0-8021-5098-5)
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The Jews & Germany: From the 'Judeo-German Symbiosis' to the Memory of Auschwitzby Enzo TraversoISBN 0803244266 (0-8032-4426-6)
Hardcover, Univ of Nebraska Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Jews & Germany: From the 'Judeo-German Symbiosis' to the Memory of Auschwitz'Book summary:The Jews and Germany debunks a modern myth: that once upon a time there was a Judeo-German symbiosis, in which two cultures met and brought out the best in each other. Enzo Traverso argues that to the contrary, the attainments of Jews in the German-speaking world were due to the Jews aspiring to be German, with little help from and often against the open hostility of Germans. As the Holocaust proved in murder and theft, German Jews could never be German enough.Now the works of German Jews are being published and reprinted in Germany. It is a matter of enormous difference whether the German rediscovery of German Jews is another annexation of Jewish property or an act of rebuilding a link between traditions.Traverso shows how tenuous the link was in the first place. He resumes the queries of German Jews who asked throughout the twentieth century what it meant to be both Jewish and German. Hannah Arendt, Gershom Scholem, Martin Buber, Max Horkheimer, Walter Benjamin, Theodor Adorno, Ernst Bloch, Rosa Luxemburg, Franz Kafka, and many more thinkers of genius found the problems unavoidable and full of paradoxes. In returning to them Traverso not only demolishes a sugary myth but also reasserts the responsibility of history to recover memory, even if bitter and full of pain.Enzo Traverso was born in Italy in 1957. He currently works at the Bibliothéque de documentation internationale contemporaine in Nanterre, where he is in charge of the German section of documentary research. He is also the author of The Marxists and the Jewish Question: History of a Debate, 18431943.[via]More editions of The Jews & Germany: From the 'Judeo-German Symbiosis' to the Memory of Auschwitz:
A Journey to the Center of the Earthby Jules VerneISBN 0804900604 (0-8049-0060-4)
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Jungle of Cities and Other Playsby Eric Bentley, Bertolt Brecht, Frank Jones, Anselm Hollo, N. Goold-VerschoyleISBN 0802151493 (0-8021-5149-3)
Softcover, Grove Pr
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Lectures on the History of Philosophy: Medieval and Modern Philosophyby Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, Elizabeth Sanderson HaldaneISBN 0803272731 (0-8032-7273-1)
Softcover, Univ of Nebraska Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Lectures on the History of Philosophy: Medieval and Modern Philosophy'Book summary:G. W. F. Hegel (17701831), the influential German philosopher, believed that human history was advancing spiritually and morally according to God's purpose. At the beginning of Lectures on the History of Philosophy, Hegel writes: "What the history of Philosophy shows us is a succession of noble minds, a gallery of heroes of thought, who, by the power of Reason, have penetrated into the being of things, of nature and of spirit, into the Being of God, and have won for us by their labours the highest treasure, the treasure of reasoned knowledge."Volume 3 of Lectures on the History of Philosophy, titled Medieval and Modern Philosophy for this Bison Books edition, begins with a survey of the philosophy of the middle ages, leaving the pagan world for the Christian and extending to the sixteenth century A.D. Hegel shows how scholastic theology and philosophy developed through the efforts of Peter Lombard, Thomas Aquinas, and others. Hegel's treatment of the modern period of philosophy focuses on Bacon, Descartes, Spinoza, Locke, Hobbes, Leibnitz, Berkeley, Hume, Kant, and Fichte.[via]More editions of Lectures on the History of Philosophy: Medieval and Modern Philosophy:
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The Luneberg Variationby Paolo MaurensigISBN 0805060286 (0-8050-6028-6)
Softcover, Holt & Company, Henry
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In this first novel, Paolo Maurensig coolly executes the ultimate drama of manipulation--life as a game of chess. On this armature, he hangs a tale of vengeance set against a backdrop of historic villainy, Nazi against Jew. The two chess players are as black and white as can be--a persecuted Jew and a ruthless, persecuting German who first "duel" over a chessboard in an international tournament, and then in a concentration camp. The narrative is a meticulous reconstruction of the moments and background events that led to Frisch's death. Ingeniously referring everything back to the machinations and executions of movements in a chess game, life itself is at stake as the inescapable sins of the past catch up with the chess-obsessed characters. [via]
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Lusitania: An Epic Tragedyby Diana PrestonISBN 0802713750 (0-8027-1375-0)
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The Marquise of O--, and Other Storiesby Heinrich Von KleistISBN 0804463654 (0-8044-6365-4)
Softcover, Ungar
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Marx's Concept Of Manby Erich FrommISBN 0804461619 (0-8044-6161-9)
Softcover, Continuum Intl Pub Group
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Memoirs of a Good-For-Nothingby Joseph EichendorffISBN 0804461341 (0-8044-6134-1)
Hardcover, Ungar
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Metamorphosisby Franz KafkaISBN 0805201726 (0-8052-0172-6)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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Metaphysics: Concept and Problemsby Theodore Adorno, Rolf Tiedemann, Edmund JephcottISBN 0804745285 (0-8047-4528-5)
Softcover, Stanford Univ Pr
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Monstrumby Donald JamesISBN 0804118914 (0-8041-1891-4)
Softcover, Random House Publishing Group
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Nietzsche: The Body and Culture Philosophy As Philological Genealogyby Eric Blondel, Sean HandISBN 0804719063 (0-8047-1906-3)
Softcover, Stanford University Press
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Night of the Goat Childrenby J. Patrick Lewis, Alexi Natchev, Michele FoleyISBN 0803718705 (0-8037-1870-5)
Hardcover, Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated
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On the Aesthetic Education of Manby Friedrich SchillerISBN 0804468192 (0-8044-6819-2)
Softcover, Continuum Intl Pub Group
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Over the Abyss : My Life in Soviet Special Operationsby I. G. StarinovISBN 0804109524 (0-8041-0952-4)
Softcover, Random House Publishing Group
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Painted Birdby Jerzy KosinskiISBN 080213422X (0-8021-3422-X)
Softcover, Grove Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Painted Bird'Book summary:Many writers have portrayed the cruelty people inflict upon each other in the name of war or ideology or garden-variety hate, but few books will surpass Kosinski's first novel, The Painted Bird, for the sheer creepiness in its savagery. The story follows an abandoned young boy who wanders alone through the frozen bogs and broken towns of Eastern Europe during and after World War II, trying to survive. His experiences and actions occur at and beyond the limits of what might be called humanity, but Kosinski never averts his eyes, nor allows us to. [via]
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The Patron: A Life of Salman Schocken, 1877-1959by Anthony DavidISBN 0805076891 (0-8050-7689-1)
Softcover, Holt & Company, Henry
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A Peace to End All Peace: Creating the Modern Middle East, 1914-1922by David FromkinISBN 0805008578 (0-8050-0857-8)
Hardcover, Henry Holt & Co
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› Find signed collectible books: 'A Peace to End All Peace: Creating the Modern Middle East, 1914-1922'Book summary:Peopled with larger-than-life figures such as Winston Churchill (around whom the story is structured), General Kitchener and T.E. Lawrence, Gertrude Bell, Attaturk, Emir Feisal and Lloyd George the book describes the showdown with the Ottoman Empire which erupted into the devastating Eastern campaign of World War I and led to the formation - by bureaucracy and subterfuge by Americans and Europeans - of the states known collectively as the Middle East. The years 1914-1922 were the creative, formative years when everything seemed possible, but the events of 1922, the pivotal year, set the course for a future of endless wars and acts of terrorism that became the legacy of this period. Issues such as The Allenby Declaration establishing nominal independence for Egypt, the Palestine Mandate and the Churchill White Paper (from which Israel and Jordan sprang), the installing of Hashemite leaders of predominantly Shi'ite teritories, new leaders for Egypt and Iraq, the Russian declaration of a Soviet Union intent on re-establishing her rule over Moslem Central Asia - David Fromkin shows how all these changed the Middle East (and Europe) forever. [via]
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Peace to End All Peace: The Fall of the Ottoman Empire and the Creation of the Modern Middle Eastby David FromkinISBN 0805068848 (0-8050-6884-8)
Softcover, Henry Holt & Co
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In our time the Middle East has proven a battleground of rival religions, ideologies, nationalisms, and dynasties. All of these conflicts, including the hostilities between Arabs and Israelis that have flared yet again, come down, in a sense, to the extent to which the Middle East will continue to live with its political inheritance: the arrangements, unities, and divisions imposed upon the region by the Allies after the First World War.
In A Peace to End All Peace, David Fromkin reveals how and why the Allies came to remake the geography and politics of the Middle East, drawing lines on an empty map that eventually became the new countries of Iraq, Israel, Jordan, and Lebanon. Focusing on the formative years of 1914 to 1922, when all-even an alliance between Arab nationalism and Zionism-seemed possible he raises questions about what might have been done differently, and answers questions about why things were done as they were. The current battle for a Palestinian homeland has its roots in these events of 85 years ago.More editions of Peace to End All Peace: The Fall of the Ottoman Empire and the Creation of the Modern Middle East:
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Penal ColonyISBN 0805204180 (0-8052-0418-0)
Softcover, Random House Inc
Find This BookBook summary:Trade paperback size book, The Penal Colony by Franz Kafka. Classic literature. [via]
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The Radical Enlightenment of Solomon: Judaism, Heresy, and Philosophyby Clinton T. HowellISBN 0804751366 (0-8047-5136-6)
Hardcover, Stanford Univ Pr
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Rapunzelby Jacob Grimm, Wilhelm Grimm, Amy Ehrlich, Kris WaldherrISBN 0803706545 (0-8037-0654-5)
Hardcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Rapunzel'Book summary:Caldecott Medalist Trina Schart Hyman's Rapunzel hearkens to a time of dark forests, forbidden gardens, and secrets locked away in a tower. Rapunzel is an innocent, barefooted beauty with "long blonde hair, as thick and glowing as sunlight or beaten gold." This version of Rapunzel is retold by Barbara Rogasky, who also collaborated with Hyman on The Golem, The Water of Life, and an illustrated collection of poetry for children, Winter Poems. Rogasky's version of this fairy tale flows along in the best of old-fashioned, once-upon-a-time cadences, such as when the prince hears "Rapunzel's sweet, lonely voice singing a song that pierced his heart." As for the witch, Mother Gothel, "she was so feared that even people who had never seen her had nightmares about her." A not-to-be-missed fairy tale for eager readers and listeners who have a soft spot for enchanting adventure stories with happy endings. (Ages 5 to 9) [via]
Reflections on Literature and Cultureby Hannah ArendtISBN 080474498X (0-8047-4498-X)
Hardcover, Stanford Univ Pr
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The Renaissance and Reformation in Germany: An Introductionby Gerhart HoffmeisterISBN 0804413916 (0-8044-1391-6)
Hardcover, Continuum Intl Pub Group
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The Rhetoric of Cultural Dialogue: Jews and Germans from Moses Mendelssohn to Richard Wagner and Beyondby Jeffrey S. LibrettISBN 0804739315 (0-8047-3931-5)
Softcover, Stanford Univ Pr
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Richard Wagner and the Anti-Semitic Imaginationby Marc A. WeinerISBN 0803297920 (0-8032-9792-0)
Softcover, Univ of Nebraska Pr
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The Sane Societyby Erich FrommISBN 0805014020 (0-8050-1402-0)
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The Seventh Millionby Tom Segev, Haim WatzmanISBN 0805066608 (0-8050-6660-8)
Softcover, Owl Books
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Shanghai Refuge: A Memoir of the World War II Jewish Ghettoby Ernest G. HeppnerISBN 0803272812 (0-8032-7281-2)
Softcover, Univ of Nebraska Pr
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The Singing Ringing Treeby Selina Hastings, Louise BrierleyISBN 0805005730 (0-8050-0573-0)
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Spearhead for Blitzkrieg : Luftwaffe Operations in Support of Army, 1939-1945by Paul DeichmannISBN 0804116954 (0-8041-1695-4)
Softcover, Random House Publishing Group
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Story of an African Farmby Olive SchreinerISBN 0805205470 (0-8052-0547-0)
Hardcover, Schocken Books
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The Sunflowerby Simon WiesenthalISBN 0805205780 (0-8052-0578-0)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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The Templeby Stephen SpenderISBN 0802135242 (0-8021-3524-2)
Softcover, Grove Pr
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Three New Deals: Reflections on Roosevelt's America, Mussolini's Italy, Hitler's Germany 1933-1939by Wolfgang Schivelbusch, Jefferson ChaseISBN 080507452X (0-8050-7452-X)
Hardcover, Metropolitan Books
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Today Franklin Delano Roosevelt's New Deal is regarded as the democratic ideal, the positive American response to an economic crisis that propelled Germany and Italy toward Fascism. Yet in the 1930s, shocking as it may seem, these regimes were hardly considered antithetical. Now, Wolfgang Schivelbusch investigates the shared elements of these three "new deals" to offer a striking explanation for the popularity of Europe's totalitarian systems.
Returning to the Depression, Schivelbusch traces the emergence of a new type of state: bolstered by mass propaganda, led by a charismatic figure, and projecting stability and power. He uncovers stunning similarities among the three regimes: the symbolic importance of gigantic public works programs like the TVA dams and the German autobahn, which not only put people back to work but embodied the state's authority; the seductive persuasiveness of Roosevelt's fireside chats and Mussolini's radio talks; the vogue for monumental architecture stamped on Washington, as on Berlin; and the omnipresent banners enlisting citizens as loyal followers of the state.
Far from equating Roosevelt, Hitler, and Mussolini or minimizing their acute differences, Schivelbusch proposes that the populist and paternalist qualities common to their states hold the key to the puzzling allegiance once granted to Europe's most tyrannical regimes.More editions of Three New Deals: Reflections on Roosevelt's America, Mussolini's Italy, Hitler's Germany 1933-1939:
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The Threepenny Operaby Kurt WeillISBN 080215039X (0-8021-5039-X)
Softcover, Grove Pr
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Titurelby Wolfram of Eschenbach, Charles PassageISBN 0804421811 (0-8044-2181-1)
Hardcover, Continuum Intl Pub Group
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Toward a Theory of Radical Origin: Essays on Modern German Thoughtby John PizerISBN 0803237111 (0-8032-3711-1)
Hardcover, Univ of Nebraska Pr
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The Tragedy of Hamlet, Prince of Denmarkby William ShakespeareISBN 0804910014 (0-8049-1001-4)
Softcover, Airmont Pub Co
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Typography: Mimesis, Philosophy, Politicsby Christopher Fynsk, Philippe Lacoue-LabartheISBN 0804732825 (0-8047-3282-5)
Softcover, Stanford Univ Pr
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Undertones of Insurrection: Music, Politics, & the Social Sphere in the Modern German Narrativeby Marc A. WeinerISBN 0803247583 (0-8032-4758-3)
Hardcover, Univ of Nebraska Pr
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Visitby Friedrich DurrenmattISBN 0802130666 (0-8021-3066-6)
Softcover, Grove Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Visit'Book summary:Dürrenmatt once wrote of himself: I can best be understood if one grasps grotesqueness, and The Visit is a consummate, alarming Dürrenmatt blend of hilarity, horror, and vertigo. The play takes place somewhere in Central Europe and tells of an elderly millionairess who, merely on the promise of her millions, swiftly turns a depressed area into a boom town. But the condition attached to her largesse, which the locals learn of only after they are enmeshed, is murder. Dürrenmatt has fashioned a macabre and entertaining parable that is a scathing indictment of the power of greed.[via]More editions of Visit:
Walter Benjamin and the Aesthetics of Powerby Lutz KoepnickISBN 0803227442 (0-8032-2744-2)
Hardcover, Univ of Nebraska Pr
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The War in the Airby H. G. Wells, Dave DuncanISBN 0803298315 (0-8032-9831-5)
Softcover, Univ of Nebraska Pr
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Who Financed Hitler: The Secret Funding of Hitler's Rise to Power, 1919-1933by James Pool, Suzanne PoolISBN 0803790392 (0-8037-9039-2)
Hardcover, Dial Press
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Witch Hunting in Southwestern Germany, 1562-1684: The Social and Intellectual Foundationsby H. Erik MidelfortISBN 0804708053 (0-8047-0805-3)
Hardcover, Stanford Univ Pr
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Woman under Socialismby August BebelISBN 0805203230 (0-8052-0323-0)
Hardcover, Schocken Books
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The World of Yesterdayby Stefan ZweigISBN 0803252242 (0-8032-5224-2)
Softcover, Univ of Nebraska Pr
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Zarathustra's Dionysian Modernismby Robert Gooding-Williams, Frederick M. DolanISBN 0804732957 (0-8047-3295-7)
Softcover, Stanford Univ Pr
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