Living German

A masterly new translation of one of the first great modernist novels In the only novel by one of the German language's greatest poets, a young man...

Reducere. Emma Betony was living out her dignified, elderly, poverty-stricken life when an appeal for help from a former student brought her to the little to...

Reducere. Description Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship, a novel of self-realization greatly admired by the Romantics, has been called the first Bildungsroman...

Reducere. In 1881, two German geographers were on their way to the continental United States from the Bering Sea Coast when they came upon a Native populatio...

Reducere. Wenn du dich in einer Situation wiederfindest, die du scheinbar nicht ver ndern kannst, h ngst du vielleicht in einem Ablenkungsimplantat fest.Ein ...

Reducere. In his youth, when Richard Bank entered his grandparents' bedroom, he would be drawn to a photograph of his grandfather as a young man standing sid...

Young Jaxon's mother, a high-end call girl, is murdered in Kansas City. The case has gone cold for several years until Janet, a woman across the st...

Reducere. Beginning in Paris on the eve of the Nazi occupation in 1940. Suite Francaise tells the remarkable story of men and women thrown together in circum...

Contributor(s): Author: Doris L. BergenIn examining one of the defining events of the twentieth century, Doris L. Bergen situates the Holocaust in ...

Reducere. For this authoritative post-cold-war biography of Shostakovich's illustrious but turbulent career under Soviet rule, Laurel E. Fay has gone back to...

Is the Living Blade real or just a legend? With itAbout the Author: Timandra Whitecastle lives on the original Plains of Rohan (Lower Saxony) in Ge...

Sartor Resartus ("The Tailor Retailored") is ostensibly an introduction to a strange history of clothing by the German Professor of Things in Gener...

"Nazi Gold" is the real-life story of the theft of a fabulous treasurethe German national gold and foreign currency reserves, which disappeared in ...

Reducere. Chestnut Hill, in northwest Philadelphia, is one of America's most beautiful urban villages thanks to the fusion of a magnificent physical setting,...

Reducere. Divya Victor documents how immigrants and Americans navigate the liminal sites of everyday living: lawns, curbs, and sidewalks, undergirded by viol...

Young Jaxon's mother, a high-end call girl, is murdered in Kansas City. The case has gone cold for several years until Janet, a woman across the st...

Reducere. The War I Finally Won is the 2nd book in The War That Saved My Life Series. A New York Times bestseller like the classic heroines of Sarah, Plain a...

Reducere. Verbs--the key to a living language 750 Russian Verbs and Their Uses gives you the key to a livinglanguage--verbs in context. Verbs give speech pow...

Reducere. The narrative follows the course of a man's life from his schoolboy days to his adulthood. The son of a north German merchant and a "Southern" moth...

In Death at La Fenice, Donna Leon's first novel in the Commissario Brunetti series, readers were introduced to the glamorous and cut-throat world o...

Reducere. Experience flavor as big as the Lone Star State itselfTexans aren't shy to proclaim that the nation's best barbecue comes from inside the borders o...

Reducere. Empires and Barbarians presents a fresh, provocative look at how a recognizable Europe came into being in the first millennium AD. With sharp analy...

The Time Out Berlin City Guide is a must-have travel companion for anyone heading to the German capital that remains one of Europe's most compellin...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Irmgard KeunTranslator: Kathie Von AnkumBefore Sex and the City there was Bridget Jones. And before Bridget Jones was The A...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Boria SaxPreface by: Klaus P. FischerThis important book explores the relationship between the Third Reich and animals -- a...

Reducere. DIAPHANY is an international peer-reviewed volume dedicated to the living confluence of poetic, phenomenological and empirical perceptions of reali...

Reducere. This classic series has inspired nearly two million readers. Both loyal fans and new readers will want the latest edition of this beloved series. B...

DescriptionNadia is haunted by World War II. Her memories of the war are messy, coming back to her in pieces and flashes she can't control. Though ...

DescriptionBorn at a clifftop lighthouse in 1910, Archie's life was spent in the world of Scottish lighthouses - he was one of the third generation...

Reducere. DescriptionBorn into a loving, wealthy German family, Katarina Von Rahmel, protected and cherished, becomes a prima ballerina but finds her career ...

'An indescribable, aching, futile longing for myself' The young Danish aristocrat Malte Laurids Brigge has been left rootless by the early death of...

DescriptionThe world is at war again. London is suffering from the German Blitz. For one immortal werewolf, the war means little. He knows he will ...

Reducere. A comprehensive study guide offering in-depth explanation, essay, and test prep for G nter Grass's The Tin Drum, the most widely read postwar Germa...

Reducere. Simply keeping bees with the Golden Hive from MelliferaKeeping bees, because one loves nature or wants to harvest one's own honey, no longer has to...

The silent and continuous erosion trickling from the top of mountains, via glaciers, tropical forests, sand dunes, icefields of Patagonia, European...

Reducere. Employing the rich testimony of almost three hundred survivors of the slave-labor camps of Starachowice, Poland, Christopher R. Browning draws the ...

Reducere. Lexie doesn't believe in curses -- or blessings, for that matter. But when she arrives on the island in January of 1942 she finds an mysterious int...

Reducere. A vocabulary of Yiddish terms, common expressions, and proverbs. Many Yiddish terms have entered the English language, describing character or emot...

The first focused study of Nietzsche's Dawn, offering a close reading of the text by two of the leading scholars on the philosophy of Nietzsche Pub...

Reducere. With a brand new foreword from the author and other updates, this classic guide to Norse mythology has been given a fresh look for a new generation...

The acclaimed author of A Train in Winter returns with the moving finale (The Economist) of her Resistance Quartet--the powerful and inspiring true...

Reducere. The experience of living in the Chernovtsy ghetto under the Nazis remains a dark undertow of all the poetry Ausländer wrote, though she rarely addr...

Reducere. The events of the novel The Night Reporter take place in Lviv in 1938. Journalist Marko Krylovych, nicknamed the "night reporter" for his nightly c...

Reducere. John Conrad Weiser was among very few colonial settlers to achieve fluency in Native American languages, working for decades as an interpreter and ...

Reducere. Jesus died with a psalm on his lips. For millennia, humans have been shaped by the Psalms. And before the Nazis banned him from publishing, German ...

Reducere. In the most ingenious and provocative thriller yet from acclaimed New York Times bestselling author Jeffery Deaver, a conscience-plagued mobster tu...

Reducere. Life Among the Qallunaat is the story of Mini Aodla Freeman's experiences growing up in the Inuit communities of James Bay and her journey in the 1...

Reducere. DescriptionMeister Eckhart, a now-popular medieval German mystic, provides the contemporary person with a way of living that centers on nothing but...

A deeply moving memoir that confronts the defining trauma of the twentieth century, and its effects on a father and son. In 1939, Jonathan Lichtens...

Julius Evola's masterful overview of the political and social manifestations of our time, the "age of decline" known to the Hindus as the Kali Yuga...

Reducere. "A colorful and inventive adventure tale."--Washington Post "It's True Grit, New York style."--New York Post "One of the best mystery novels of the...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Sarah OwenInterest in Paganism is steadily increasing and, while rooted in ancient tradition, it is a living religious move...

It is the fall of 1939, and Lieutenant Grange and his men are living in a chalet above a concrete bunker deep in the Ardennes forest, charged with ...

DescriptionDo your family dinners happen in more than one language? Do you celebrate Christmas and Eid? Do you and your family feel at home in more...

Reducere. What was life like under the Third Reich? What went on between parents and children? What were the prevailing attitudes about sex, morality, religi...

Meet Stubby: a stray pup who was taken in by a group of American soldiers-in-training and soon found himself whisked off to the frontlines of World...

Reducere. Alter Wiener's father was brutally murdered on September 11, 1939 by the German invaders of Poland. Alter was then a boy of 13. At the age of 15 he...

Reducere. * Winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award * Silver Medal Society of Illustrators * * Named a Best Book of the Year by The New York Times, ...

Reducere. Adolf Eichmann was head of Gestapo Division IV-B4, the Third Reich's notorious Security Service, and he was responsible for implementing the "Final...

Suite Fran?aise is an extraordinary novel of life under Nazi occupation - recently discovered and published 64 years after the author's death in Au...

DescriptionThe world of fairy tales is one that we all love to enter. Many of these stories had been told for centuries, delighting children and ad...

Reducere. Written between 1873 and 1876, The "Untimely Meditations, " or "Thoughts out of Season" is a collection of four essays by famed philosopher Friedri...

Reducere. This is the second volume in a series that presents plays by Sweden's greatest living playwright in English. Lars Noren is generally considered Swe...

What could middle-class German supermarket shoppers buying eggs and impoverished coffee farmers in Guatemala possibly have in common? Both groups u...

Reducere. DescriptionFrom the Man Booker Prize-nominated author of Sleeping on Jupiter and "one of India's greatest living authors" (O, The Oprah Magazine), ...

Reducere. The people of Denmark managed to save almost their country's entire Jewish population from extinction in a spontaneous act of humanity - one of the...

Reducere. As in Anne Frank's "Diary of a Young Girl" and Elie Wiesel's "Night", Bella Kuligowska bravely marshaled unexpected resources to manage as a teen d...

Reducere. Few diseases are more gruesome than typhus. Transmitted by body lice, it afflicts the dispossessed--refugees, soldiers, and ghettoized peoples--cau...

Reducere. Drawing on more than 100 unpublished photographs, including unseen images of some of the most famous and infamous Berlin clubs of the 1920s, Party ...

Melville's Moby Dick unfolds in a world of dragon hunters in Black Leviathan, an epic revenge fantasy from German award-winning author Bernd Perpli...