1063 results for '"Simon Reich'

Parsing Adolf Hitler's ideology provides insights into the world of an extremist politics that, over the course of the Third Reich, developed explosive energies culminating in the Second World War...

“Genius . . . [This] is Bolaño playing with sharp, twisting knives.” ―Stacey D’Erasmo, The New York Times Book Review “Imaginative, full of a love for literature, and . . . exceptionally...

This book presents the exceptional group of illuminations in the Robert Lehman Collection at The Metropolitan Museum of Art. The miniatures and cuttings from medieval and Renaissance manuscripts in...

"Brilliant, elegant, and unsparing." --Emma Cline "[S]tarkly beautiful." -- WBUR "Enchanting." -- Publishers Weekly (starred review) An intoxicating, compact debut novel by the winner of Columbia's...

Based on events that took place in Oyo, an ancient Yoruba city of Nigeria, in 1946, Wole Soyinka's powerful play concerns the intertwined lives of Elesin Oba, the king's chief horseman; his son,...

Hannah Arendt is one of the most renowned political thinkers of the twentieth century, and her work has never been more relevant than it is today. Born in Germany in 1906, Arendt published her first...

Paul Roazen's study of Sigmund Freud and his complex relationships with the men and women who formed his circle is widely recognized as the best portrait of Freud and his world, and it focuses as...

Vienna in the Age of Uncertainty traces the vital and varied roles of science through the story of three generations of the eminent Exner family, whose members included Nobel Prize–winning...

"The chapters in this volume painfully drive home the point that certainly as far as Germany is concerned, the lessons of the Third Reich have not yet been learned... These significant attempts by...

Does humour make us human, or do the cats and dogs laugh along with us? On Humour is a fascinating, beautifully written and funny book on what humour can tell us about being human. Simon Critchley...

Philippe Parreno is a catalogue that accompanies the fourth exhibition that makes up a retrospective of Parreno's work. Starting at Kunsthalle Zürich, it has since traveled to the Centre Pompidou in...

From the author of Oprah's Book Club pick and New York Times bestseller Nightcrawling comes an astonishing new novel about the joys and entanglements of a fierce group of teenage mothers in a small...

Why did some of the "best and brightest" of Weimar intellectuals advocate totalitarian solutions to the problems of liberal democratic, capitalist society? How did their "radical conservatism"...

Pulitzer Prize-winning historian John Toland’s classic, definitive biography of Adolf Hitler remains the most thorough, readable, accessible, and, as much as possible, objective account of the life...

What do Dr. Seuss, William Faulkner, Toni Morrison, Andrei Sakharov, and James Michener have in common? They were all published by Bob Bernstein during his twenty-five-year run as president of Random...

Flight Through the Ages! A Fun STEM Book for Young Aviators!Prepare for takeoff on an exciting STEM journey with Up, Up, and Away! Join Grandpa Edward and his curious grandkids, Molly and Simon, as...

An eye-opening account of the rise of science in Germany through to Hitler’s regime, and the frightening Nazi experiments that occurred during the ReichA shocking account of Nazi science, and a...

The close association between the United States and the Federal Republic of Germany was a key element in the international order of the Cold War era. No country had as wide-reaching or as profound an...

This collection of twelve essays written in English and French honors Victor Henri Brombert, the eminent humanist, thinker, and scholar of nineteenth- and twentieth-century European letters. Though...

"Masterful . . . [A] painstakingly researched, astonishingly erudite study…Tooze has added his name to the roll call of top-class scholars of Nazism." —Financial TimesAn extraordinary mythology has...