2830 results for '"Bert Useem'

Neue Perspektiven auf das Bürgertum im "Dritten Reich" und danach.Das Versagen des deutschen Bürgertums vor der Herausforderung des Nationalsozialismus scheint auf den ersten Blick evident. Auf den...

In kaum einem Land außerhalb Deutschlands wurde die Kritische Theorie so intensiv gelesen wie in Amerika. Für die Übersetzung, Verbreitung und Diskussion der Schriften Theodor W. Adornos, Max...

Book by Carmack, Robert M.

"Accurst be he that first invented war," wrote Christopher Marlowe--a declaration that most of us would take as a literary, not literal, construction. But in this sweeping overview of the rise of...

Discusses the role Jackson played in America's territorial expansion.

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Die vorliegende Einführung in 'Das Kapital' unterscheidet sich von anderen auch dadurch, d sie nicht polemisch zu belegen versucht, dieses Werk besser verstanden zu haben als jene. Sie zeichnet zwar...

After the opening essay on the general significance of literature, Eco examines a number of major authors from the Western canon. A stimulating chapter on the poetic qualities of Dantes Paradiso is...

A passionate tribute to literature and writing as beacons of clarity and truth Can a society compel its inhabitants to admit the evidence of facts? Can literature help us see the world as it really...

An anthology of haikus--brief poems--by three Japanese masters. They are Kobayashi Issa (1763-1827), Matsuo Basho (1644-1694) and Yosa Buson (1716-1783). A sample from the latter: "You go / I stay /...

Between Heaven and Earth explores the relationships men, women, and children have formed with the Virgin Mary and the saints in twentieth-century American Catholic history, and reflects, more...

Robert Dale presents a detailed description of the development of algorithms for the generation of referring expressions, and of the underlying structures that motivate these algorithms, in a dynamic...

The Spanish translation of Make Way for Ducklings, the Caldecott Award-winning classic picture book by Robert McCloskey!El senor Pato y la senora Pata saben que el Jardin Publico de Boston es el...

From The New York Times bestselling author of Is A River Alive and Underland, an "eloquent (and compulsively readable) reminder that, though we're laying waste the world, nature still holds sway over...

“In 2008, Americans face war, terrorism, recession and the rising economies of China and India. Yet the author avers there is still reason to hope for good leadership. Astute assessments of an...

Pricksongs & Descants, originally published in 1969, is a virtuoso performance that established its author - already a William Faulkner Award winner for his first novel - as a writer of enduring...

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • An “absorbing” (Los Angeles Times) biography of one of the most remarkable, powerful, and captivating women in Russian history—from the Pulitzer Prize–winning author of...

Winner of Randy Shilts AwardIn the half century before the Nazis rose to power, Berlin became the undisputed gay capital of the world. Activists and medical professionals made it a city of firsts—the...

The first comprehensive account of Nietzsche's views of Jews and JudaismFor more than a century, Nietzsche's views about Jews and Judaism have been subject to countless polemics. The Nazis infamously...

A New York Times bestseller and “a passionate, urgent” (The New Yorker) examination of the growing inequality gap from the bestselling author of Bowling Alone: why fewer Americans today have the...