Germany

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Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 1101875674
Total Pages : 636 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (18 download)

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Book Synopsis Germany by : Neil MacGregor

Download or read book Germany written by Neil MacGregor and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2015-09-29 with total page 636 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For the past 140 years, Germany has been the central power in continental europe. Twenty-five years ago a new German state came into being. How much do we really understand this new Germany, and how do its people understand themselves? Neil MacGregor argues that, uniquely for any European country, no coherent, overarching narrative of Germany's history can be constructed, for in Germany both geography and history have always been unstable. Its frontiers have constantly shifted. Königsberg, home to the greatest German philosopher, Immanuel Kant, is now Kaliningrad, Russia; Strasbourg, in whose cathedral Wolfgang von Geothe, Germany's greatest writer, discovered the distinctiveness of his country's art and history, now lies within the borders of France. For most of the five hundred years covered by this book Germany has been composed of many separate political units, each with a distinct history. And any comfortable national story Germans might have told themselves before 1914 was destroyed by the events of the following thirty years. German history may be inherently fragmented, but it contains a large number of widely shared memories, awarenesses, and experiences; examining some of these is the purpose of this book. MacGregor chooses objects and ideas, people and places that still resonate in the new Germany—porcelain from Dresden and rubble from its ruins, Bauhaus design and the German sausage, the crown of Charlemagne and the gates of Buchenwald—to show us something of its collective imagination. There has never been a book about Germany quite like it.

The Invisible Collection

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Publisher : Pushkin Press
ISBN 13 : 1782271503
Total Pages : 385 pages
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Book Synopsis The Invisible Collection by : Stefan Zweig

Download or read book The Invisible Collection written by Stefan Zweig and published by Pushkin Press. This book was released on 2015-05-05 with total page 385 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the story of about the strangest thing that I've ever encountered, old art dealer that I am.' It is perhaps the finest art collection of its kind, acquired through a lifetime of sacrifice - but when a dealer comes to see it, he finds something quite unexpected, and is drawn into a peculiar deception of the collector himself... Stefan Zweig was a wildly popular writer of compelling short fiction: in this collection there are peaks of extraordinary emotion, stories of all that is human crushed by the movements of history, of letters that fill a young heart or drive a person towards death, of obsession and desire. They will stay with the reader for ever.

A Contrastive Grammar of Brazilian Pomeranian

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Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing Company
ISBN 13 : 9027263531
Total Pages : 346 pages
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Book Synopsis A Contrastive Grammar of Brazilian Pomeranian by : Gertjan Postma

Download or read book A Contrastive Grammar of Brazilian Pomeranian written by Gertjan Postma and published by John Benjamins Publishing Company. This book was released on 2019-03-15 with total page 346 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Pomeranian is the West Germanic language spoken by European emigrants who went from Farther Pomerania (present-day Poland) to Brazil in the period 1857–1887. This language is no longer spoken in cohesive societies in Europe, but the language has survived and is in remarkably good shape on this language island in the tropical state of Espirito Santo. This monograph offers the first synchronic grammar of this language. After a historical introduction, the book offers a systematic description of its phonology, morphology and syntax. The language is contrasted with its European sisters, more particularly High German, Dutch, and Frisian. It highlights various phenomena that will presumably contribute to the ongoing theoretical debate on the Germanic verbal system. It provides new data on cluster V2, do-support, and the two infinitives. As to the infinitival syntax, the language shows remarkable parallels to the system of Frisian. As to the rich Pomeranian system of subtractive morphology, the phonological account that is offered, will be important for the ongoing discussion of the abstractness of phonological representations. Finally, Pomeranian is a welcome addition to the set of languages on which our etymological understanding of West Germanic is based.

The Flying Mountain

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ISBN 13 : 9780857424747
Total Pages : 0 pages
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Book Synopsis The Flying Mountain by : Christoph Ransmayr

Download or read book The Flying Mountain written by Christoph Ransmayr and published by . This book was released on 2018 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The Flying Mountain tells the story of two brothers who leave the southwest coast of Ireland on an expedition to Transhimalaya, the land of Kham, and the mountains of eastern Tibet--looking for an untamed, unnamed mountain that represents perhaps the last blank spot on the map. As they advance toward their goal, the brothers find their past, and their rivalry, inescapable, inflecting every encounter and decision as they are drawn farther and farther from the world they once knew"--Jacket.

Beliefs and Superstitions of the Pennsylvania Germans

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Total Pages : 394 pages
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Book Synopsis Beliefs and Superstitions of the Pennsylvania Germans by : Edwin Miller Fogel

Download or read book Beliefs and Superstitions of the Pennsylvania Germans written by Edwin Miller Fogel and published by . This book was released on 1915 with total page 394 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Wonder

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Publisher : Knopf Books for Young Readers
ISBN 13 : 037589988X
Total Pages : 322 pages
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Book Synopsis Wonder by : R. J. Palacio

Download or read book Wonder written by R. J. Palacio and published by Knopf Books for Young Readers. This book was released on 2012-02-14 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • Millions of people have fallen in love with Auggie Pullman, an ordinary boy with an extraordinary face—who shows us that kindness brings us together no matter how far apart we are. Read the book that inspired the Choose Kind movement, a major motion picture, and the critically acclaimed graphic novel White Bird. And don't miss R.J. Palacio's highly anticipated new novel, Pony, available now! I won't describe what I look like. Whatever you're thinking, it's probably worse. August Pullman was born with a facial difference that, up until now, has prevented him from going to a mainstream school. Starting 5th grade at Beecher Prep, he wants nothing more than to be treated as an ordinary kid—but his new classmates can’t get past Auggie’s extraordinary face. Beginning from Auggie’s point of view and expanding to include his classmates, his sister, her boyfriend, and others, the perspectives converge to form a portrait of one community’s struggle with empathy, compassion, and acceptance. In a world where bullying among young people is an epidemic, this is a refreshing new narrative full of heart and hope. R.J. Palacio has called her debut novel “a meditation on kindness” —indeed, every reader will come away with a greater appreciation for the simple courage of friendship. Auggie is a hero to root for, a diamond in the rough who proves that you can’t blend in when you were born to stand out.

Sand

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Publisher : New York Review of Books
ISBN 13 : 1681372029
Total Pages : 465 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (813 download)

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Book Synopsis Sand by : Wolfgang Herrndorf

Download or read book Sand written by Wolfgang Herrndorf and published by New York Review of Books. This book was released on 2018-06-12 with total page 465 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Set in the aftermath of the 1972 Munich Olympics massacre, this darkly sophisticated literary thriller by one of Germany's most celebrated writers is now available in the US for the first time. North Africa, 1972. While the world is reeling from the massacre of Israeli athletes at the Munich Olympics, a series of mysterious events is playing out in the Sahara. Four people are murdered in a hippie commune, a suitcase full of money disappears, and a pair of unenthusiastic detectives are assigned to investigate. In the midst of it all, a man with no memory tries to evade his armed pursuers. Who are they? What do they want from him? If he could just recall his own identity he might have a chance of working it out. . . . This darkly sophisticated literary thriller, the last novel Wolfgang Herrndorf completed before his untimely death in 2013, is, in the words of Michael Maar, “the greatest, grisliest, funniest, and wisest novel of the past decade.” Certainly no reader will ever forget it.

Primal Vision

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Publisher : New Directions Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9780811200080
Total Pages : 324 pages
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Book Synopsis Primal Vision by : Gottfried Benn

Download or read book Primal Vision written by Gottfried Benn and published by New Directions Publishing. This book was released on 1971 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: These selected writings of Gottfried Benn or primal visions of the 1920s anticipated in certain ways the positions of such writers today as Beckett and Genet, the French antinovelists and the American Beats.

Jewish Families

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Publisher : Rutgers University Press
ISBN 13 : 0813562937
Total Pages : 207 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (135 download)

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Book Synopsis Jewish Families by : Jonathan Boyarin

Download or read book Jewish Families written by Jonathan Boyarin and published by Rutgers University Press. This book was released on 2013-07-23 with total page 207 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From stories of biblical patriarchs and matriarchs and their children, through the Gospel’s Holy Family of Jesus, Mary, and Joseph, and to modern Jewish families in fiction, film, and everyday life, the family has been considered key to transmitting Jewish identity. Current discussions about the Jewish family’s supposed traditional character and its alleged contemporary crisis tend to assume that the dynamics of Jewish family life have remained constant from the days of Abraham and Sarah to those of Tevye and Golde in Fiddler on the Roof and on to Philip Roth’s Portnoy’s Complaint. Jonathan Boyarin explores a wide range of scholarship in Jewish studies to argue instead that Jewish family forms and ideologies have varied greatly throughout the times and places where Jewish families have found themselves. He considers a range of family configurations from biblical times to the twenty-first century, including strictly Orthodox communities and new forms of family, including same-sex parents. The book shows the vast canvas of history and culture as well as the social pressures and strategies that have helped shape Jewish families, and suggests productive ways to think about possible futures for Jewish family forms.

Impromptus

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Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux
ISBN 13 : 9780374175375
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (753 download)

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Book Synopsis Impromptus by : Gottfried Benn

Download or read book Impromptus written by Gottfried Benn and published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux. This book was released on 2013-11-05 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An extraordinary collection of poetry and prose from the master of German expressionism The first poem in Gottfried Benn's first book, Morgue (1912)—written in an hour, published in a week, and notorious ever after—with its scandalous closing image of an aster sewn into a corpse by a playful medical student, set Benn on the path to celebrity and notoriety. And indeed, mortality, flowers, and powerful aesthetic collisions typify much of his subsequent work. Over the decades, as Benn suffered the vicissitudes of fate (the death of his mother from cancer; the death of his first wife, Edith; his brief attempt to ingratiate himself with the Nazis, followed by their persecution of him; the suicide of his second wife, Herta), the harsh voice of the poems relented and mellowed. His later poetry—from which Impromptus is chiefly drawn, many of the poems translated into English for the first time—is deeply affecting: it reflects the routines and sorrows and meditations of an intelligent, pessimistic, and experienced man. Written in the low, unupholstered monologue of the poet talking to himself, these works are slender ribbons of speech on the naked edge of song and silence. With this collection of poems and essays—edited and translated by the award-winning poet Michael Hofmann—Benn, at long last, promises to attain the presence and importance in the English-speaking world that he so richly deserves.

Campaign in France in the Year 1792

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 380 pages
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Book Synopsis Campaign in France in the Year 1792 by : Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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The Children of Green Knowe Collection

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Publisher : Faber & Faber Children's Books
ISBN 13 : 9780571303472
Total Pages : 368 pages
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Book Synopsis The Children of Green Knowe Collection by : Lucy M. Boston

Download or read book The Children of Green Knowe Collection written by Lucy M. Boston and published by Faber & Faber Children's Books. This book was released on 2013 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: River at Green Knowe: An English girl, a Polish refugee, and a displaced boy from the Orient explore an island-strewn river near the ancient manor house, Green Knowe.

Rereading Russian Poetry

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Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780300071498
Total Pages : 388 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (714 download)

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Book Synopsis Rereading Russian Poetry by : Stephanie Sandler

Download or read book Rereading Russian Poetry written by Stephanie Sandler and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 1999-01-01 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Russia's poets hold a special place in Russian culture, perhaps revealing more about their country than poets within any other nation. In this unique and wide-ranging collection of writings on poets and poetic trends in Russia, contributors from the United States, Britain, and Russia examine the place of poetry in Russian culture. Through a variety of critical approaches, these scholars, translators, and poets consider a broad cross section of Russian poets, from Pushkin to Brodsky, Shvarts, and Kibirov.

Larenopfer

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 180 pages
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Book Synopsis Larenopfer by : Rainer Maria Rilke

Download or read book Larenopfer written by Rainer Maria Rilke and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This translation of the Larenopfer, or offerings to the household god Lar, are songs that Rilke sings to his hometown Prague and to his beloved Bohemia, short poems on the parks, fountains, churches, bridges and palaces of Prague, not forgetting Rabbi Löw's legends, the Jewish cemetery, the Thirty Years War and, of course, young love. This cycle of 90 poems offers the reader a unique view into Rilke's fascinating world, the turn-of-the-century atmosphere of Prague, then the third largest city in the Austro-Hungarian Empire. Here a young German of the ruling bourgeoisie shows great appreciation of contemporary Czech literary works and enthusiasm for the cause of Czech cultural identity. The book therefore possesses not only literary merit but is also of considerable sociological and historical interest. --Red Hen Press.

Gehirne (German)

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Publisher : CreateSpace
ISBN 13 : 9781512283839
Total Pages : 46 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (838 download)

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Book Synopsis Gehirne (German) by : Gottfried Benn

Download or read book Gehirne (German) written by Gottfried Benn and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2015-05-19 with total page 46 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Rönne, ein junger Arzt, der früher viel seziert hatte, fuhr durch Süddeutschland dem Norden zu. Er hatte die letzten Monate tatenlos verbracht; er war zwei Jahre lang an einem pathologischen Institut angestellt gewesen, das bedeutet, es waren ungefähr zweitausend Leichen ohne Besinnen durch seine Hände gegangen, und das hatte ihn in einer merkwürdigen und ungeklärten Weise erschöpft.

The History of Biology

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ISBN 13 : 9780685214039
Total Pages : 629 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (14 download)

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Book Synopsis The History of Biology by : Erik Nordenskiöld

Download or read book The History of Biology written by Erik Nordenskiöld and published by . This book was released on 1976 with total page 629 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Annual directory through press and advertising

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1766 pages
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Book Synopsis Annual directory through press and advertising by : Stamm-Leitfaden durch Presse und Werbung

Download or read book Annual directory through press and advertising written by Stamm-Leitfaden durch Presse und Werbung and published by . This book was released on 1990 with total page 1766 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: