Before the Deluge: Portrait of Berlin in the 1920s, a, Paperback - Otto Friedrich

Reducere. This evocation of the figures and events of one of the most extraordinary eras of this century makes the most vivid portrait of the period yet writ...

Reducere. A Washington Post Best Book of the YearBerlin is a city of fragments and ghosts, a laboratory of ideas, the fount of both the brightest and darkest...

Publisher: Sussex Academic PressAuthor(s): Frantz Leander HansenIllustration(s): illusNumber of pages: 160Publication date: 2021Dimensions: 138 x 2...

Reducere. One spring morning, the Easter Bunny skips merrily along to deliver his colorful, hand-painted eggs. But the children tell him that it's Mother's D...

Reducere. About the AuthorOtto Carius won the Knights Cross with Oak Leaves for his bravery during WWII.

Focused on three key themes - Helpers and Heroes, Your New Normal and Acts of Kindness, this book presents a unique portrait of the UK during the 2...

Autobiographical in tone, Joyce's tale of Stephen Dedalus' journey into adulthood explores the intellectual and moral development of an artist as h...

Reducere. Mother Teresa's life sounds like a legend. The Albanian girl who entered an Irish order to go to India as a missionary and became an "Angel of the ...

Reducere. The first English translation of a lost classic that reinvents the flaneur in Berlin.Franz Hessel (1880-1941), a German-born writer, grew up in Ber...

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLCAuthor(s): Deborah (University of Technology Sydney, Australia) Ascher BarnstoneIllustration(s): 41 color and 6...

SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2018 NED KELLY AWARD, DANGER PRIZE AND WAVERLEY LIBRARY NIBSYDNEY, 1923: a suitcase washed up on a harbourside beach reveals it...

Publisher: CaneloAuthor(s): Maggie FordNumber of pages: 288Collection: The Lett Family SagasPublication date: 2022Dimensions: 129 x 196 x 21Cover t...

- The disastrous consequences of rising sea levels in six regions around the world are captured in photographs that are both beautiful and disturbi...

A unique and deeply affecting memoir of a child's survival in the Roma and Sinti holocaust.Publisher: Octopus Publishing GroupAuthor(s): Otto Rosen...

A remarkable account of Nazi Germany at war and of one man's struggle against totalitarianism. Friedrich Kellner's diary unflinchingly charts the c...

Reducere. In all of North America there is no more perfect intersection of climate, culture, and colorful history than San Francisco - the culmination of Man...

Reducere. The City of Angels? No burg this side of the Pearly Gates could live up to such a moniker, and L.A. isn't even trying. You won't see many inhabitan...

The Portrait of a Lady - Henry James

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLCAuthor(s): Deborah (University of Technology Sydney, Australia) Ascher BarnstoneIllustration(s): 41 color and 6...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Friedrich A. HayekLARGE PRINT EDITIONMore at LargePrintLiberty.com. What if the government let anyone use a currency of his...

Reducere. A bold new interpretation of the First World War and the birth of the American Century In the depths of the Great War, with millions dead and no en...

Reducere. The black experience in America--starting from its origins in western Africa up to 1961--is examined in this seminal study from a prominent African...

Publisher: British Film InstituteAuthor(s): D. A. (University of California, Berkeley, USA) MillerIllustration(s): 60 bw illusNumber of pages: 128C...

A church art exhibition turns deadly . . . 'Art, my dear boy, ' said Mr Askern, 'especially sacred art, needs tradition. Tradition is the bedrock o...

Mid-March 2020: native New Yorker Gregory Peterson is on an early evening walk through the city, suddenly shut down by the coronavirus pandemic. Us...

Publisher: Signal Books LtdAuthor(s): Barry HattonIllustration(s): IllustrationsNumber of pages: 256Publication date: 2011Dimensions: 214 x 141 x 2...

Reducere. First published in 1882 and revised in 1887, "The Gay Science" was written at the peak of Nietzsche's intellectual abilities. It includes a large n...

Reducere. Rahn's personal diary from his travels as occult investigator for the Third Reich - First English translation of the author's journeys in search of...

Reducere. Here is a Christian allegorical story that treats of superlatives. The richest man in the world, with the most varied and treasured art collection ...

A pair of silver Regency candlesticks. Pieces of well-worn family jewelry. More than a thousand documents, letters, and photographs Lotte Meyerhoff...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Lerone BennettThe black experience in America--starting from its origins in western Africa up to 1961--is examined in this ...

A true Cold War espionage thriller set in the ultra-secret Berlin Tunnel - where British officer George Blake must run a high-stakes double cross t...

Reducere. A PEOPLE BOOK OF THE WEEK WINNER OF THE JQ-WINGATE LITERARY PRIZE "A haunting tribute to survivors and those lost forever--and a reminder, in our o...

Reducere. In the years following World War I, the New Orleans French Quarter attracted artists and writers with its low rents, faded charm, and colorful stre...

Reducere. Paris, 1920s. Tatiana Vytenis has worked hard to leave her past behind. Once a ruined Russian princess in hiding, she is now a sought-after model a...

Reducere. Between 1976 and 1993 Nancy Warren visited the Jicarilla Apache reservation in northern New Mexico numerous times. She was permitted to photograph ...

Reducere. Christopher Knowlton, author of Cattle Kingdom and former Fortune writer, takes an in-depth look at the spectacular Florida land boom of the 1920s ...

Reducere. A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man is the first novel of Irish writer James Joyce. A K nstlerroman in a modernist style, it traces the intelle...

Reducere. This is a truly original novel that has earned its place among my favorite works of historical fiction.--Jennifer Robson, USA Today bestselling aut...