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The 6th Lamentationby William BrodrickISBN 0670031917 (0-670-03191-7)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The 6th Lamentation'Book summary:Larkwood Priory, England: Father Anselm is stopped by an old man. What, he is asked, should a man do when the world has turned against him? Anselm's response: claim sanctuary. But the answer sets off more trouble than he ever could have imagined when the man returns, demanding the protection of the Church. He is Eduard Schwermann, a suspected Nazi war criminal. Agnes Aubret has unburdened a secret to her granddaughter Lucy. Fifty years earlier, Agnes was in occupied Paris, risking her life to smuggle Jewish children to safety-until her group was exposed by an SS officer: Eduard Schwermann. Not only has the Church granted Schwermann sanctuary before; in 1944 it helped him escape from France to begin a new life in Britain. As Anselm attempts to find out why and as Lucy delves deeper into her grandmother's past, their investigations dovetail to form a remarkable story. William Brodrick makes a dazzling debut in this literary thriller where two seemingly unconnected lives gradually, shockingly converge. Brodrick, himself a former Augustinian friar, is a master of precision plotting, morally complex characterization, and crisp historical re-creation. In Father Anselm, Brodrick has crafted a unique and compelling hero. And The 6th Lamentation promises to be the literary thriller discovery of the season. [via]
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Ace of the Iron Crossby Stanley M. Ulanoff, Ernst UdetISBN 0668051612 (0-668-05161-2)
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Adultery and Divorce in Calvin's Genevaby Robert M. KingdonISBN 067400521X (0-674-00521-X)
Softcover, Harvard Univ Pr
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Alameinby Jon LatimerISBN 0674010167 (0-674-01016-7)
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All That Is Solid Melts into the Air: The Experience of Modernityby Marshall BermanISBN 067124602X (0-671-24602-X)
Hardcover, Simon & Schuster
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› Find signed collectible books: 'All That Is Solid Melts into the Air: The Experience of Modernity'Book summary:"A bubbling caldron of ideas . . . Enlightening and valuable." Mervyn Jones, New Statesman.[via]The political and social revolutions of the nineteenth century, the pivotal writings of Goethe, Marx, Dostoevsky, and others, and the creation of new environments to replace the oldall have thrust us into a modern world of contradictions and ambiguities. In this fascinating book, Marshall Berman examines the clash of classes, histories, and cultures, and ponders our prospects for coming to terms with the relationship between a liberating social and philosophical idealism and a complex, bureaucratic materialism.
From a reinterpretation of Karl Marx to an incisive consideration of the impact of Robert Moses on modern urban living, Berman charts the progress of the twentieth-century experience. He concludes that adaptation to continual flux is possible and that therein lies our hope for achieving a truly modern society.
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Anne Frank Remembered: The Story of the Woman Who Helped to Hide the Frank Familyby Miep Gies, Alison Leslie GoldISBN 0671662341 (0-671-66234-1)
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It seems as if we are never far from Miep's thoughts....Yours, Anne
For the millions moved by Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl, here at last is Miep's own astonishing story. For more than two years, Miep Gies and her husband helped hide the Franks from the Nazis. Like thousands of unsung heroes of the Holocaust, they risked their lives each day to bring food, news, and emotional support to the victims.
From her own remarkable childhood as a World War I refugee to the moment she places a small, red-orange, checkered diary -- Anne's legacy -- in Otto Frank's hands, Miep Gies remembers her days with simple honesty and shattering clarity. Each page rings with courage and heartbreaking beauty. [via]
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At War, at Seaby Ronald H. SpectorISBN 0670860859 (0-670-86085-9)
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Basic Kafkaby Franz Kafka, Erich HellerISBN 067153145X (0-671-53145-X)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Basic Kafka'Book summary:Published together for the first time are selections from all Kafka's writings: The Metamorphosis, Josephine The Singer, plus his short stories, parables, and his personal diaries and letters. [via]
The Battle of Hurtgen Forestby Charles WhitingISBN 0671686364 (0-671-68636-4)
Hardcover, Simon & Schuster
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Berlin Wildby Elly WeltISBN 067080925X (0-670-80925-X)
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Between Past and Futureby Hannah ArendtISBN 0670160253 (0-670-16025-3)
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Blood and Banquets: A Berlin Diary 1930-38by Bella FrommISBN 0671751395 (0-671-75139-5)
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Bulfinch's Mythologyby BulfinchISBN 0670194646 (0-670-19464-6)
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The Closed Circleby Jonathan CoeISBN 0670892548 (0-670-89254-8)
Hardcover, Viking
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Closed Circle'Book summary:Set against the backdrop of the Millenium celebrations and Britain's increasingly compromised role in America's war against terrorism', The Closed Circle lifts the lid on an era in which politics and presentation, ideology and the media have become virtually indistinguishable. Darkly comic, hugely engaging, and compulsively readable, it is the much-anticipated follow-up to Jonathan Coe's bestselling novel The Rotters' Club, and reintroduces us to the characters first encountered in that book. But whereas The Rotters' Club was a novel of innocence, The Closed Circle is its opposite: a novel of experience. [via]
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Coleridge: Early Visionsby Richard HolmesISBN 0670804444 (0-670-80444-4)
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The Conduct of Major Maximby Gavin LyallISBN 0670237116 (0-670-23711-6)
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The Confidence Manby Leon GarfieldISBN 067023723X (0-670-23723-X)
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The Cuisines of Germany: Regional Specialties and Traditional Home Cookingby Horst ScharfenbergISBN 0671631977 (0-671-63197-7)
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The Danish Girlby David EbershoffISBN 0670888087 (0-670-88808-7)
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The Devil's Arithmeticby Jane YolenISBN 0670810274 (0-670-81027-4)
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The Dilemmas of an Upright Man: Max Planck and the Fortunes of German Scienceby J. L. HeilbronISBN 0674004396 (0-674-00439-6)
Softcover, Harvard Univ Pr
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The Eagle Has Flownby Jack HigginsISBN 0671746693 (0-671-74669-3)
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Exiled in Paradise: German Refugee Artists and Intellectuals in America, from the 1930s to the Presentby Anthony HeilbutISBN 0670516619 (0-670-51661-9)
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Fighter Boys: The Battle of Britain, 1940by Patrick BishopISBN 0670032301 (0-670-03230-1)
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Foundations of Hegel's Social Theory: Actualizing Freedomby Frederick NeuhouserISBN 0674011244 (0-674-01124-4)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Foundations of Hegel's Social Theory: Actualizing Freedom'Book summary:The author's purpose is to understand the philosophical foundations of Hegel's social theory by articulating the normative standards at work in his claim that the three central social institutions of the modern era--the nuclear family, civil society, and the constitutional state--are rational or good. Its central question is: what, for Hegel, makes a rational social order rational? In addressing this question the book aspires to be faithful to Hegel's texts and to articulate a compelling theory of rational social institutions; its aim is not only to interpret Hegel correctly but also to demonstrate the richness and power that his vision of the rational social order possesses.
Frederick Neuhouser's task is to understand the conceptions of freedom on which Hegel's theory rests and to show how they ground his arguments in defense of the modern social world. In doing so, the author focuses on Hegel's most important and least understood contribution to social philosophy, the idea of "social freedom."
Neuhouser's strategy for making sense of social freedom is to show its affinities with Rousseau's conception of the general will. The main idea that Hegel appropriates from Rousseau is that rational social institutions must satisfy two conditions: first, they must furnish the basic social preconditions of their members' freedom; and, second, all social members must be able subjectively to affirm their freedom-conditioning institutions as good and thus to regard the principles that govern their social participation as coming from their own wills.
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Founder : Meyer Amschel Rothschild, a Man and His Timeby Amos ElonISBN 0670868574 (0-670-86857-4)
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General Introduction to Psychoanalysis the Authoriby Sigmund FreudISBN 0671204181 (0-671-20418-1)
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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 Idealism: The Struggle Against Subjectivism, 1781-1801by Frederick C. BeiserISBN 0674007697 (0-674-00769-7)
Hardcover, Harvard Univ Pr
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The Great Railway Bazaar : By Train Through Asiaby Paul TherouxISBN 067172648X (0-671-72648-X)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Great Railway Bazaar : By Train Through Asia'Book summary:In this unique and luminous work that spent two months on The New York Times bestseller list, award-winning author and railroad-lover Paul Theroux takes us aboard the world's greatest trains -- the Orient Express, the Khyber Pass Local, the Golden Arrow, the Mandalay Express -- on an odyssey from London through Europe and Asia, across the frozen vastness of Siberia. And his eye misses no wonder of landscape or character: con men, holy men, beggars, spies, smugglers, soldiers, aristocrats, and artists. From mystical temples to sensual brothels, Theroux savors the delights of travel, as Asia becomes a bazaar of all cultures. [via]
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Hamletby William ShakespeareISBN 0671042866 (0-671-04286-6)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Hamlet'Book summary:In this edition of Hamlet, as in all other plays in the Folger Library, the text is set on right-hand pages. All notes are placed on facing left-hand pages and are keyed exactly to the text by line numbers. [via]
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Harvest of Despair: Life and Death in Ukraine under Nazi Ruleby Karel C. BerkhoffISBN 0674013131 (0-674-01313-1)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Harvest of Despair: Life and Death in Ukraine under Nazi Rule'Book summary:"If I find a Ukrainian who is worthy of sitting at the same table with me, I must have him shot," declared Nazi commissar Erich Koch. To the Nazi leaders, the Ukrainians were Untermenschensubhumans. But the rich land was deemed prime territory for Lebensraum expansion. Once the Germans rid the country of Jews, Roma, and Bolsheviks, the Ukrainians would be used to harvest the land for the master race.
Karel Berkhoff provides a searing portrait of life in the Third Reich's largest colony. Under the Nazis, a blend of German nationalism, anti-Semitism, and racist notions about the Slavs produced a reign of terror and genocide. But it is impossible to understand fully Ukraine's response to this assault without addressing the impact of decades of repressive Soviet rule. Berkhoff shows how a pervasive Soviet mentality worked against solidarity, which helps explain why the vast majority of the population did not resist the Germans. He also challenges standard views of wartime eastern Europe by treating in a more nuanced way issues of collaboration and local anti-Semitism.
Berkhoff offers a multifaceted discussion that includes the brutal nature of the Nazi administration; the genocide of the Jews and Roma; the deliberate starving of Kiev; mass deportations within and beyond Ukraine; the role of ethnic Germans; religion and national culture; partisans and the German response; and the desperate struggle to stay alive.
Harvest of Despair is a gripping depiction of ordinary people trying to survive extraordinary events.
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Hattie and the Wild Waves: A Story from Brooklynby Barbara CooneyISBN 0670830569 (0-670-83056-9)
Hardcover, Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated
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Heidiby Johanna Spyri, Rozier-GaudriaultISBN 0670869872 (0-670-86987-2)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Heidi'Book summary:Johanna Spyri's classic story of a young orphan sent to live with her grumpy grandfather in the Swiss Alps is retold in it's entirety in this beautifully bound hardcover edition. Heidi has charmed and intrigued readers since it's original publication in 1880. Much more than a children's story, the narrative is also a lesson on the precarious nature of freedom, a luxury too often taken for granted. Heidi almost loses her liberty as she is ripped away from the tranquility of the mountains to tend to a sick cousin in the city. Happily, all's well that ends well, and the reader is left with only warm, fuzzy thoughts. Spryi's story will never grow wearisome--and this is a very appealing edition. --Naomi Gesinger [via]
Hitler's Samurai: The Waffen-Ss in Actionby Bruce QuarrieISBN 0668058056 (0-668-05805-6)
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The Holocaust: Problems and Perspectives of Interpretationby Donald L. NiewykISBN 0669272914 (0-669-27291-4)
Softcover, Houghton Mifflin College Div
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The Hotel New Hampshireby John IrvingISBN 0671687948 (0-671-68794-8)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Hotel New Hampshire'Book summary:The first of my fathers illusions was that bears could survive the life lived by human beings, and the second was that human beings could survive a life led in hotels. So says John Berry, son of a hapless dreamer, brother to a cadre of eccentric siblings, and chronicler of the lives lived, the loves experienced, the deaths met, and the myriad strange and wonderful times encountered by the family Berry. Hoteliers, pet-bear owners, friends of Freud (the animal trainer and vaudevillian, that is), and playthings of mad fate, they dream on in a funny, sad, outrageous, and moving novel by the remarkable author of A Prayer for Owen Meany and Last Night in Twisted River.
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The House of Rothschild Vol. 1: Money's Prophets, 1798-1848by Niall FergusonISBN 0670857688 (0-670-85768-8)
Hardcover, Southgate Publishers
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The House of Rothschild Vol. 1: Money's Prophets, 1798-1848'Book summary:The first historian with access to the long-lost Rothschild archive, bestselling author Niall Ferguson offers a myth-breaking in-depth portrait fo one of the most fascinating and powerful families in Europe. Hidden for nearly fifty yers in the KGB's special archive, the uncovered records cast new light on the banking family's rise to preeminence. With the help of Hebrew scholar Mordecai Zucker, The House of Rothschild also reflects the first major translation of important and revealing intra-family correspondence in the Judendeutch dialect. In a vast undertaking, Ferguson has synthesized material from over 20 different archives and 20,000 letters, as well as other historical sources, and produced an exceptional--and readable history. Ferguson follows the founders' five sons in their rise to power as pioneers of modern business communication, creators of the international bond market, and the financial force behind many political events of the time. A family saga as well, Ferguson reveals the true nature of the family's relations with one another and with most of the important politicians and monarchs of the time, as well as their profound connection to the Jewish community. A major book, The House of Rothschild is the definitive account of one of the most important firms--and one of the most exceptional families--in modern history. [via]
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The House on Garibaldi Streetby Isser HarelISBN 0670380288 (0-670-38028-8)
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John Maynard Keynes: A Biography Hope Betrayed, 1883-1920by Robert Jacob Alexander SkidelskyISBN 0670408107 (0-670-40810-7)
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John Maynard Keynes: Fighting for Britain, 1937-1946by Royall Tyler, Robert SkidelskyISBN 0670030228 (0-670-03022-8)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'John Maynard Keynes: Fighting for Britain, 1937-1946'Book summary:The first two volumes of Robert Skidelsky's definitive and consummate biography of John Maynard Keynes were hailed as publishing events on both sides of the Atlantic. Already published to acclaim in Britain, this third and final volume covers Keynes's later years from 1937 to his death in 1946. During this period, Keynes's outstanding contribution to the financing of Britain's war effort, to the building of the postwar economic order, and his role in Britain's struggle to preserve its independence within the Atlantic alliance solidified the economist's lasting importance in twentieth-century history. Skidelsky lucidly explains Keynes's economic theories and masterfully evokes the complexities of his personality. The book abounds in lively anecdotes and memorable portraits, notably that of his devoted wife, Lydia Lopokova, whose eccentric but utterly logical post-Keynesian existence is charted in a delightful epilogue. Insightful and intelligent, this is a work that tells the story of a passionate and determined visionary and provides an invaluable overview of issues that remain at the center of international political and economic debate. [via]
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Kinski Uncut: The Autobiography of Klaus Kinskiby Klaus Kinski, Joachim NeugroschelISBN 0670867446 (0-670-86744-6)
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The Klingon Hamletby William Shakespeare, Nick Nicholas, Andrew Strader, Klingon Language Institute, Will Martin, Mark Shoulson, D'Armond SpeersISBN 0671035789 (0-671-03578-9)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Klingon Hamlet'Book summary:Prepared by the Klingon Language Institute, The Klingon Hamlet presents full English and Klingon versions of Shakespeare's play side by side. Only experienced Klingon speakers will be able to fully appreciate the nuances of the Klingon-language version, but for anyone who has dabbled in the language, this is an excellent opportunity to acquire large chunks of authentic text to practice on. Most of the vocabulary used can be found in either The Klingon Dictionary or Klingon for the Galactic Traveler.
For non-Klingon speakers, there is Shakespeare's original text, an English-language introduction, and detailed endnotes, very wittily presented. These put forward the case that Shakespeare himself was a Klingon, and underline the essentially Klingon nature of this famous play, with its themes of honor and revenge. In creating the tragic figure of Hamlet, with his very un-Klingon propensity for brooding and procrastination, Shakespeare is believed to have been commenting on a culture becoming alienated from its traditional warlike virtues, and we are told that most Klingons find it a deeply disturbing play.
All in all, this is a very clever, well-presented interpretation of one of the world's most famous plays. The Klingon translation, in all the glory of its iambic pentameter, has been lovingly constructed, and is well worth the effort of reading at least a few favorite passages aloud. --Elizabeth Sourbut, Amazon.co.uk [via]
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Lenin: A Biographyby Robert ServiceISBN 0674008286 (0-674-00828-6)
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The Little Drummer Girlby John Le CarréISBN 0671042785 (0-671-04278-5)
Softcover, Simon & Schuster
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In this thrilling and though-provoking novel of Middle Eastern intrigue, Charlie, a brilliant and beautiful young English actress, is lured into "the theatre of the real" by an Israeli intelligence officer. Forced to play her ultimate role, she is plunged into a deceptive and delicate trap set to ensnare an elusive Palestinian terrorist. [via]
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The Longest Dayby Cornelius RyanISBN 0671890913 (0-671-89091-3)
Softcover, Touchstone Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Longest Day'Book summary:A true classic of World War II history, The Longest Day tells the story of the massive Allied invasion of Normandy on June 6, 1944. Journalist Cornelius Ryan began working on the book in the mid-1950s, while the memories of the D-day participants were still fresh, and he spent three years interviewing D-day survivors in the United States and Europe. When his book was first published in 1959, it was tremendously successful, establishing many of the legends of D-day that endure in the public's mind. Ryan was enormously skillful at weaving small personal stories into the overall narrative, and he would later use the same technique to depict the airborne invasion of Holland in A Bridge Too Far. Not only is The Longest Day a pleasure to read, but subsequent historians, dutifully noting its accuracy, have relied heavily on Ryan's research for their own accounts. In short, the book is a "must read" for anyone interested in the D-day invasion. --Robert McNamara [via]
Magdalena and Balthasar: An Intimate Portrait of Life in 16th Century Europe Revealed in the Letters of a Nuremberg Husband and Wifeby Steven OzmentISBN 0671624407 (0-671-62440-7)
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Marrying Mozartby Stephanie CowellISBN 0670032689 (0-670-03268-9)
Hardcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Marrying Mozart'Book summary:Mannheim, 1777. The four Weber sisters, daughters of a musical family, share a crowded, artistic life in a ramshackle house. Their father scrapes by as a music copyist; their mother keeps a book of prospective suitors hidden in the kitchen. The sisters struggle with these marriage prospects as well as their musical futures-until one evening at their home, when 21-year- old Wolfgang Mozart walks into their lives.
No longer a prodigy and struggling to find his own place in the music world, Mozart is enthralled with the Weber sisters: Aloysias beauty and talent captivates him; Josefas rich voice inspires him; Sophie becomes his confidante; and Constanze comes to play a surprising role in his life.
Eighteenth-century Europe comes alive with unforgiving winters and yawning princes; scheming parents and the enduring passions of young talent. Set in Mannheim, Munich, Salzburg and Vienna, Marrying Mozart is the richly textured love story of a remarkable historical figure-and four young women who engaged his passion, his music, and his heart. [via]
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Martin Heideggerby George SteinerISBN 0670459097 (0-670-45909-7)
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Moses Mendelssohn: Selections from His Writingsby Moses MendelssohnISBN 067048993X (0-670-48993-X)
Hardcover, Viking Press
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Motherland : A Daughter's Journey to Reclaim Her Pastby Fern Schumer ChapmanISBN 0670881058 (0-670-88105-8)
Hardcover, Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated
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My Father's Island: A Galapagos Questby Johanna AngermeyerISBN 0670827320 (0-670-82732-0)
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Napoleon and Hitler: A Comparative Biographyby Desmond SewardISBN 0671701878 (0-671-70187-8)
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Napoleon and Hitler: A Comparative Studyby Desmond SewardISBN 0670814806 (0-670-81480-6)
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The Nazi Conscienceby Claudia KoonzISBN 0674011724 (0-674-01172-4)
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The Nazi Revolution: Hitler's Dictatorship and the German Nationby Allan MitchellISBN 0669208809 (0-669-20880-9)
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Of Human Bondageby W. Somerset MaughamISBN 0671479067 (0-671-47906-7)
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Op. JBby Christopher CreightonISBN 0671855654 (0-671-85565-4)
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The Pigeonby Patrick Suskind, John E. WoodsISBN 067166770X (0-671-66770-X)
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The Prussian Officer, and Other Storiesby D. H. LawrenceISBN 0670580538 (0-670-58053-8)
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Pursuit; the Chase and Sinking of the Bismarckby Ludovic Henry Coverley KennedyISBN 0670583146 (0-670-58314-6)
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Renaissance Europe: Age of Recovery and Reconciliationby De Lamar JensenISBN 0669200077 (0-669-20007-7)
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Russian Thinkersby Isaiah Berlin, Henry Hardy, Aileen KellyISBN 0670613711 (0-670-61371-1)
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Second World Warby John KeeganISBN 0670823597 (0-670-82359-7)
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Selected Non-Fictionsby Jorge Luis Borges, Eliot Weinberger, Esther Allen, Suzane Jill Levine, Andrew HurleyISBN 0670849472 (0-670-84947-2)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Selected Non-Fictions'Book summary:Jorge Luis Borges was our century's greatest miniaturist, perpetually cramming entire universes onto the head of a pin. Yet his splendid economy, along the wafer-thin proportions of such classic volumes as Ficciones and Labyrinths, has given readers the impression that Borges was miserly with his prose. In fact, he was something of a verbal spendthrift. His collected stories alone run to nearly 1,000 pages. And his nonfiction output was even more staggering: the young Borges cranked out hundreds of essays, book notes, cultural polemics, and movie reviews, and even after he lost his sight in 1955, he continued to dictate short pieces by the dozens. Eliot Weinberger has assembled just a fraction of this outpouring in Selected Non-Fictions, and the result is a 559-page Borgesian blowout, in which the Argentinean fabulist takes on being and nothingness, James Joyce and Lana Turner, and (surprisingly) racial hatred and the rise of Nazism. So much for our image of the mandarin bookworm! The very engagé author of this book seems more like a subequatorial Camus, with a dash of Siskel and Ebert on the side.
Selected Non-Fictions demonstrates just how quickly Borges began wrestling with such brainteasers as identity, time, and infinity. Indeed, the very first piece in the collection, "The Nothingness of Personality" (1922), already finds him fiddling with the self: "I, as I write this, am only a certainty that seeks out the words that are most apt to compel your attention. That proposition and a few muscular sensations, and the sight of the limpid branches that the trees place outside my window, constitute my current I." There are many such meditations here, including "A History of Eternity" (in which Borges maps out his own, disarmingly empty version of the eternal, "without a God or even a co-proprietor, and entirely devoid of archetypes"). But it's more fun--and more revelatory--to see the author venturing beyond his metaphysical stomping grounds. Borges on King Kong is a hoot, and a cornball masterpiece such as The Petrified Forest elicits this terrific nugget: "Death works in this film like hypnosis or alcohol: it brings the recesses of the soul into the light of day." His capsule biographies are a delight, his critiques of Nazi propaganda are memorably stringent, and nobody should miss him on the tango. True, the sheer variety and mind-boggling erudition of Selected Non-Fictions can be a little forbidding. But, taken as a whole, the collection surely meets the specifications that Borges laid out in a 1927 essay on literary pleasure: "If only some eternal book existed, primed for our enjoyment and whims, no less inventive in the populous morning as in the secluded night, oriented toward all hours of the world." Oh, but it does. --James Marcus [via]
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Sonnets To Orpheusby Rainer Maria RilkeISBN 0671617737 (0-671-61773-7)
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Sonnets To Orpheusby Stephen Mitchell, Rainer Maria RilkeISBN 0671557084 (0-671-55708-4)
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The Spanish Civil Warby Hugh ThomasISBN 0671758764 (0-671-75876-4)
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Stella/One Woman's True Tale of Evil, Betrayal, and Survival in Hitler's Germanyby Peter WydenISBN 0671673610 (0-671-67361-0)
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Storm Warningby Jack HigginsISBN 0671746294 (0-671-74629-4)
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The Story of Civilization Pt. 1 : Rousseau and Revolutionby Will Durant, Ariel DurantISBN 067163058X (0-671-63058-X)
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The Ten Thousandby Harold Coyle, Paul McCarthyISBN 0671885650 (0-671-88565-0)
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Total War: The Causes and Courses of the Second World Warby Peter Calvocoressi, R. John Pritchard, Guy WintISBN 0670803111 (0-670-80311-1)
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Tragedy of Dr Faustusby Christopher MarlowISBN 0671509772 (0-671-50977-2)
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The Tragedy of Hamlet, Prince of Denmarkby William Shakespeare, Paul Werstine, Barbara A. MowatISBN 067172262X (0-671-72262-X)
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Trumanby David Willis McCulloughISBN 0671869205 (0-671-86920-5)
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Vico and Herder: Two Studies in the History of Ideasby Isaiah BerlinISBN 0670745855 (0-670-74585-5)
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Waiting for Anyaby Michael MorpurgoISBN 0670837350 (0-670-83735-0)
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Walter Benjamin Selected Writings: 1935-1938by Walter Benjamin, Gary Smith, Michael W. Jennings, Marcus Bullock, Howard EilandISBN 0674008960 (0-674-00896-0)
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Walter Benjamin: Selected Writings, 1913-1926by Walter Benjamin, Michael W. JenningsISBN 0674013557 (0-674-01355-7)
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Walter Benjamin: Selected Writings, 1938-1940by Walter Benjamin, Michael W. JenningsISBN 0674010760 (0-674-01076-0)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Walter Benjamin: Selected Writings, 1938-1940'Book summary:"Every line we succeed in publishing today...is a victory wrested from the powers of darkness." So wrote Walter Benjamin in January 1940. Not long afterward, he himself would fall prey to those powers, a victim of suicide following a failed attempt to flee the Nazis. However insistently the idea of catastrophe hangs over Benjamin's writings in the final years of his life, the "victories wrested" in this period nonetheless constitute some of the most remarkable twentieth-century analyses of the emergence of modern society. The essays on Charles Baudelaire are the distillation of a lifetime of thinking about the nature of modernity. They record the crisis of meaning experienced by a civilization sliding into the abyss, even as they testify to Benjamin's own faith in the written word.
This volume ranges from studies of Baudelaire, Brecht, and the historian Carl Jochmann to appraisals of photography, film, and poetry. At their core is the question of how art can survive and thrive in a tumultuous time. Here we see Benjamin laying out an ethic for the critic and artist--a subdued but resilient heroism. At the same time, he was setting forth a sociohistorical account of how art adapts in an age of violence and repression.
Working at the height of his powers to the very end, Benjamin refined his theory of the mass media that culminated in the final version of his essay "The Work of Art in the Age of Its Technological Reproducibility." Also included in this volume is his influential piece "On the Concept of History," completed just before his death. The book is remarkable for its inquiry into the nature of "the modern" (especially as revealed in Baudelaire), for its ideas about the transmogrification of art and the radical discontinuities of history, and for its examples of humane life and thought in the midst of barbarism. The entire collection is eloquent testimony to the indomitable spirit of humanity under siege.
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War in the Wild East: The German Army and Soviet Partisansby Ben ShepherdISBN 0674012968 (0-674-01296-8)
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Who Financed Hitler: The Secret Funding of Hitler's Rise to Power, 1919-1933by James PoolISBN 0671760831 (0-671-76083-1)
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World War II: Roots and Causesby Keith EubankISBN 0669249696 (0-669-24969-6)
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