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Der Sandmann/The Sandman By E. T. A. Hoffmann
The Original German and a New English Translation with Critical Introductions
Av E.T.A. Hoffmann, Jolyon Timothy Hughes
Häftad, 2020
526 kr
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E.T.A. Hoffman can be considered one of the fathers of German Gothic Horror. He wrote one of the first German horror novels, Die Elixiere des Teufels (The Devil’s Elixirs), and he also wrote the story to which Tchaikovsky composed the Nutcracker Suite. The Sandman is a story that is unique in its …
Victorian Holocaust
Iran in the Great Famine of 1869–1873
Inbunden, 2017
1031 kr
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The death by famine of tens of millions of human beings in Asia and Africa during the Victorian era (1837–1901) is “the secret history of the nineteenth century” about which Western history books contain nothing. The Great Famine of 1869–1873 in Iran took 10–12 million lives, or two-thirds of the …
Fallacies in the Allied Nations' Historical Perception as Observed by a British Journalist
Häftad, 2016
475 kr
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In 1941, Imperial Japan rapidly brought an end to the British Empire in Asia. Because a non-white race dared to upset the white colonialists’ status quo in Asia, the British resented the Japanese long after the war. Mr. Henry Scott-Stokes states that he held such a view as well before arriving in …
Is the Holocaust Vanishing?
A Survivor's Reflections on the Academic Waning of Memory and Jewish Identity in the Post-Auschwitz Era
Häftad, 2005
717 kr
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Is the Holocaust Vanishing? explores the ramifications of the passing of survivors for Holocaust studies, the removal of the Jew from Holocaust studies, and what all of this means for Jewish identity after the Holocaust. The book consists of years of reflection and wrestling with these issues on …
Journey of Hope
Av Oscar Mann
Häftad, 2005
912 kr
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In this touching and courageous memoir, Oscar Mann recounts his boyhood in France, the onset of World War II and the Holocaust, his immigration to America, and his years in the military and as a doctor. Mann's honest narrative offers us a glimpse into his past and a critical time in 20th century …
Looking Backward-Thinking Forward
A Nuremberg Prosecutor's Memoir with Numerous Commentaries on Subjects of Contemporary Interest
Häftad, 2005
1063 kr
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Looking Backward-Thinking Forward describes the progression of author Drexel A. Sprecher from his early life in the Midwest to becoming the deputy chief counsel in the trials of the surviving leaders of Nazi Germany. The author later became the editor-in-chief of the official volumes on the last …
Unwanted and Not Included
The Saga of Mexican People in the United States
Häftad, 2006
561 kr
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Unwanted and Not Included is a critical response to the social, political, and racial concerns that affect Mexican Americans. In a series of essays, Julián Camacho examines who the Mexican Americans are, and more importantly, what differentiates them from Whites, Blacks, Asians, and other …
Bread, Butter, and Sugar
A Boy's Journey Through the Holocaust and Postwar Europe
Häftad, 2007
641 kr
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Based on the true story of Martin Schiller, a child survivor of the Holocaust, this gripping memoir describes the unfolding horror of the Nazi genocide seen through the eyes of a child. "Menek" (Schiller's childhood nickname) was six-years-old when the Nazis invaded Poland, and his family fled …
Escape to Freedom
Häftad, 2007
539 kr
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As a ten-year-old child, Leon Rubinstein fled Germany with his parents in 1933 to Luxembourg and then Belgium, which they fled again on the morning of the Nazi invasion. They dwelt quietly as refugees in the south of France until the Vichy government began its roundup of foreign Jews for …
'They Always Said I Would Marry a White Girl'
Coming to Grips with Race in America
Häftad, 2007
603 kr
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Robert Moore, whose African American identity today may be questioned by some because of his very light skin color, grew up in an all-white suburb of Philadelphia in the 1960s when the push to assimilate was blatant. An examination of the life experiences of people sometimes felt to be at the …
Euro-Jews and Afro-Arabs
The Great Semitic Divergence in World History
Av Ali A. Mazrui, Seifudein Adem Ph.D
Häftad, 2008
1285 kr
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The impact of European and Semitic peoples upon world civilization and African history is addressed in this scholarly study. The Jewish wing of the Semitic people converged with the Western world; the Arab wing of the Semites converged with Africa. The three Abrahamic religions of Judaism, …
My Forty Years in East China and West America
The Extra Requirements of My Life
Häftad, 2008
1138 kr
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Philip Fei Wu was born in the outskirts of Shanghai, the "Venice of the East," where he lived the first 35 years of his life and endured the Chinese political turbulence. From his teens, all throughout early adulthood, the author experienced the worst of human cruelty and madness in China during …
Boy Who Lost His Birthday
A Memoir of Loss, Survival, and Triumph
Av Laszlo Berkowits, Robert W. Kenny m. fl.
Häftad, 2008
592 kr
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The Boy Who Lost His Birthday is the uplifting story of one man's journey from boyhood in rural Hungary to triumph over oppression during the Holocaust and finally to a role as a spiritual leader in America. Rabbi Laszlo Berkowits' compelling memoir recounts his happy childhood memories in …
Unplanned Roundtrip
Häftad, 2008
550 kr
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An Unplanned Roundtrip recounts author Arthur O. Klein's transition from life in a middle class Jewish home in prewar 1930s Vienna to a new life as an American citizen after serving in the U.S. Army Counter Intelligence Corps in 1947. Beginning with the entry of Adolf Hitler into Vienna in March …
New Aphorisms & Reflections
Second Series
Häftad, 2009
596 kr
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New Aphorisms & Reflections: Second Series, the fifth volume of a major work in progress, features more than 400 entries, some of which are autobiographical. Like its predecessors, New Aphorisms & Reflections includes a sampling of "meetings of the minds"—dialogues between the author and aphorists …
Hope in Times of Darkness
A Salvadoran American Experience
Häftad, 2009
518 kr
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Hope in Times of Darkness sends a message that we can be agents of positive change, and that minority youth in impoverished areas can succeed in life and become productive citizens of our society. The author, a Salvadoran American, lived in El Salvador as a child but grew up in South Central Los …
Journey on My Own
A Youth from Hitler's Germany Strives to Claim His American Identity
Häftad, 2009
578 kr
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A Journey on My Own tells the story of Eric Vieler, born in America but raised in Hitler's Germany, where he saw the persecution of Jewish neighbors and experienced the bombing of cities. After being expelled from a Nazi-run academy, he crossed battle lines to reach his home. On Easter 1945, he …
'We Are Going to Pick Potatoes'
Norway and the Holocaust, The Untold Story
Häftad, 2010
550 kr
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Irene Levin Berman was born, raised, and educated in Norway. Her first conscious recollection of life goes back to 1942, when as a young child she escaped to Sweden, a neutral country during World War II, to avoid annihilation. Germany had invaded Norway and the persecution of two thousand …
Women of Uncommon Valor
Life Stories of Women from Birmingham, Alabama
Av Geraldine Watts Bell, Hattie Griffin Lamar
Häftad, 2010
531 kr
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Women of Uncommon Valor introduces readers to women who have demonstrated extraordinary commitment to the various endeavors through which they have fulfilled their lives and contributed to the city of Birmingham. These women have succeeded despite having experienced degrees of gender, racial, class …
Physician Under the Nazis
Memoirs of Henry Glenwick
Häftad, 2010
534 kr
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A Physician Under the Nazis are the memoirs of the first forty years (1909-1948) of the life of Henry Glenwick. It focuses on his experiences as a physician in Russian-occupied Ukraine after the outbreak of World War II, his return to the Warsaw ghetto, and his subsequent journey through labor and …
Auschwitz, USA
A Comparative Study in Efficiency and Human Resources Management: How the Nazis' Final Solution Annihilated the Jews in Europe and How America's 'Free Enterprise' Has Consumed Our Intelligence and Humanity in America
Av Jon Huer
Häftad, 2010
561 kr
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In the last hundred years of industrial advancement, a great deal of scientific progress has been made in the field of efficiency studies. Known as human resources management among those who study these things, the main quest has always been how to control human thoughts and actions so that …
Esperanza en tiempos de oscuridad
Experiencia de un Salvadore-o Americano
Häftad, 2010
461 kr
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Randy Jurado Ertll, un salvadoreño americano, creció en el Sur Centro de Los Ángeles a fines de los años 1970 y durante los 80, y también vivió en El Salvador cuando era un niño, así como en Rochester, Minnesota, Washington, D.C., y en Alexandria, Virginia. En cada una de estas ciudades presenció …
Random Musings
Reflections of a Black Intellectual
Häftad, 2011
504 kr
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Random Musings: Reflections of a Black Intellectual focuses on the various racial and cultural challenges facing African-Americans in the context of present day educational, political, and historical realities. The text touches on a wide array of issues, including the psychology of race and power, …
Police Officer Stress Awareness & Management
Häftad, 2011
506 kr
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The stress of life can cause many serious consequences for all human beings. Being a police officer is understood to be one of the most stressful occupations and the stressors associated with their work are frequent, numerous, cumulative, and sometimes overwhelming. Police Officer Stress Awareness …
Typical Extraordinary Jew
From Tarnow to Jerusalem
Av Calvin Goldscheider, Jeffrey M. Green
Häftad, 2011
490 kr
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This book tells the life story of an extremely engaging and charming Polish Jew, Shmuel Braw (1906-1992), who lived through the traumatic historical events that shaped Jewish experiences in the twentieth century. The story is told largely in Shmuel's own Yiddish- inflected Australian English to two …
Silent Lives
How High a Price?: For Personal Reflections and Group Discussions about Sexual Orientation
Häftad, 2011
697 kr
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This work combines autobiographical sources, personal interviews, and questions for reflection to explore issues relevant to everyone’s sexual orientation or gender status, be they heterosexual or gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender, or intersexual. Very few books address these topics for …
Boy in the Suitcase
Holocaust Family Stories of Survival
Häftad, 2011
518 kr
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The Boy in the Suitcase: Holocaust Family Stories of Survival is a uniquely different Holocaust book. It reads like an intriguing novel, such as the title chapter which tells the story of an infant smuggled out of Germany in a suitcase and raised in the Dominican Republic. Each chapter tells a …
Ten-Mile Morning
My Journey through Anorexia Nervosa
Häftad, 2012
565 kr
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Ten-Mile Morning is a true story about a man’s battle to overcome his five-year struggle with anorexia nervosa. Written from a painfully honest perspective, Adam Lamparello discusses his past addictions, depression, anxiety, and the emptiness that arose from his lack of self-esteem. This moving …
Archaeology and the Biblical Record
Av Bernard Alpert, Fran Alpert
Häftad, 2012
518 kr
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In the 6th century BCE, Jerusalem and Judea were destroyed by the Babylonians. This traumatic event created the need to construct and articulate a comprehensive past that would give meaningful context to the identity of the Israelites. New modes of communal organization and worship during this …
Psychology for People of God
Häftad, 2012
618 kr
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This book combats the anti-religious sentiment of some psychologists. It argues that Christians do not have to give up their religious faith to keep the contributions of science. A science compatible with religion accepts that human beings have freedom of will to select behaviors and that all …
