Ivan R. Dee – serie
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1939
The Alliance That Never Was and the Coming of World War II
Häftad, 2009
227 kr
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At a crucial point in the twentieth century, as Nazi Germany prepared for war, negotiations between Britain, France, and the Soviet Union became the last chance to halt Hitler’s aggression. Incredibly, the French and British governments dallied, talks failed, and in August 1939 the Soviet Union …
Ideology of Death
Why the Holocaust Happened in Germany
Av John Weiss
Häftad, 1997
196 kr
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Despite all the thousands of studies of the Holocaust and the rise of Nazi Germany, we still have no satisfactory explanation of why this tragedy occurred in one of the most "civilized" of Western nations. John Weiss's Ideology of Death is the first book to explore the unique nature of German …
Our Culture, What's Left of It
The Mandarins and the Masses
Inbunden, 2005
288 kr
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This new collection of essays by the author of Life at the Bottom bears the unmistakable stamp of Theodore Dalrymple's bracingly clearsighted view of the human condition. In these pieces, Dr. Dalrymple ranges over literature and ideas, from Shakespeare to Marx, from the breakdown of Islam to the …
Politics of Memory
The Journey of a Holocaust Historian
Av Raul Hilberg
Häftad, 2002
187 kr
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This is the poignant memoir of a man who has spent most of his lifetime immersed in the evidence of one of the great horrors in human history. It is both a record of how it affected him and a revelation of the surprising ways in which his monumental work was received by his contemporaries. Even …
Like a Holy Crusade
Mississippi 1964 -- The Turning of the Civil Rights Movement in America
Häftad, 1993
227 kr
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The year 1964 produced a watershed in American race relations. In one of the civil rights movement's most dramatic initiatives, thousands of Northern white college students were recruited to come south that summer in an effort to "break" Mississippi and secure voting rights for its black citizens. …
We Are the People Our Parents Warned Us Against
Häftad, 1988
366 kr
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Books about the sixties have proliferated in recent years, but none has surpassed Nicholas von Hoffman’s classic account of the 1960s counter-culture in San Francisco. “In the summer of 1967,” he writes, “youth drew attention to itself by clustering in large numbers in most major American cities, …
John Brown's Body
Häftad, 1990
361 kr
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One of the most widely read poems of our time, John Brown’s Body is Stephen Vincent Benét’s masterful retelling of the Civil War. A book of great energy and sweep, it swings into view the entire course of that terrible and decisive war, lighting up the lives of soldiers, leaders, and civilians, …
Faith for All Seasons
Islam and the Challenge of the Modern World
Häftad, 1991
342 kr
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This is an unusual book with an unusual purpose. Shabbir Akhtar is an intelligent and erudite Muslim whose writings have attracted the attention of Graham Greene and other English authors. In A Faith for All Seasons he challenges his fellow Muslims to recognize that they live in a secular world of …
From the Secret Files of J. Edgar Hoover
Inbunden, 1991
293 kr
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Documents from the late FBI director's secret files reveal for the first time the shocking extent of FBI activities in spying on prominent Americans and political groups. A grimly fascinating—and profoundly disturbing—self-exposure by one of the false American deities of the 20th century. —Arthur …
Culture in an Age of Money
The Legacy of the 1980s in America
Häftad, 1991
220 kr
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Fifteen brilliant essays on the kind of culture created by the magic of the marketplace in 1980s America, from architecture to the yuppie ascendancy. Amusing, caustic and cleverly written....What makes Culture in an Age of Money fun to read is its refreshing candor. —New York Times
Ku Klux Klan in the City, 1915-1930
Häftad, 1992
226 kr
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For decades the most frightening example of bigotry and hatred in America, the Ku Klux Klan has usually been seen as a rural and small-town product–an expression of the decline of the countryside in the face of rising urban society. Kenneth Jackson's important book revises conventional wisdom about …
Rise and Fall of the Man of Letters: English Literary Life Since 1800
Av John Gross
Häftad, 1992
408 kr
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Nazi Holocaust
Häftad, 1994
314 kr
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The Nazi Holocaust is an important breakthrough in the struggle to understand this shattering event. By shunning simplistic explanations, Landau seeks to mediate between the vast, often unapproachable subject and the reader who wrestles with its meaning. Locating the Holocaust within a number of …
Jerusalem
A History of the Holiest City as seen Through the Struggles of Jews, Christians, and Muslims
Häftad, 1994
212 kr
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This majestic history of Jerusalem is the first to bring together in a single volume the experiences of the three great religions in the holy city from their ancient beginnings to the present. It is history in the grand manner, an absorbing saga of prophets, priests, and pilgrims, kings and …
Trollope the Traveller: Selections from Anthony Trollope's Travel Writings
Häftad, 1995
361 kr
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Clown Scenes
Av Tristan Remy
Inbunden, 1997
4,0 utav 5 stjärnor. Totalt antal röster: (1)
318 kr
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The intimacy of the one-ring circus produced the classic clown routines that flourished until the mid-twentieth century and then disappeared with the rise of the grand circus. They have been lost until now. By seeking out the little band of surviving clowns who worked in the old tradition and …
Wasted
The Plight of America's Unwanted Children
Inbunden, 1997
249 kr
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The public guardian of Cook County, Illinois, charges that the child welfare bureaucracy, designed to help children, is instead helping to destroy them. Murphy explains the facts and failures of the child welfare system—and offers solutions—better than any expert I've ever read on the subject....A …
Being Positive
The Lives of Men and Women with HIV
Inbunden, 1997
300 kr
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Being Positive gives us the clearest picture we have of what life is like for people who have been diagnosed HIV positive. Based upon unique in-depth interviews with a broad cross-section of patients, the book is remarkable for its candor and compassionate analysis. The people speak for themselves. …
Meeting Mr. Lincoln
Firsthand Recollections of Abraham Lincoln by People, Great and Small, Who Met the President
Inbunden, 1998
234 kr
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Imagine walking into the White House between 1861 and 1865. Would you have been allowed to see the president? With no titles or accolades attached to your name, would he have talked with you? And if so, how would you have felt afterward about his dignity, intelligence, and character? Scores of …
Battling Demon Rum
The Struggle for a Dry America, 1800-1933
Inbunden, 1998
285 kr
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A narrative account of the fight to regulate alcohol, from roughly 1800 to the repeal of national prohibition in 1933. An intriguing tale of social reform and of the limits of government-imposed morality. The best short history available of the politics and practices of American temperance …
Theatre for Children: A Guide to Writing, Adapting, Directing, and Acting
Inbunden, 1999
545 kr
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Theatre for Children: A Guide to Writing, Adapting, Directing, and Acting
Häftad, 1999
409 kr
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Lively ART
Twenty Years of the American Repertory Theatre
Av Jan Geidt, Arthur Holmberg m. fl.
Inbunden, 1999
332 kr
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The resident repertory company in Cambridge, Massachusetts, affiliated with Harvard and known as the American Repertory Theatre, has long been considered one of the country’s most innovative cultural resources. The quality of its productions and the issues it has raised about the nature of the …
Rubens: A Double Life
A Double Life
Häftad, 1999
234 kr
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A vivid portrait of Rubens's enormous life against a background of the turbulent history of his times. Without neglecting his paintings, Ms. Lescourret also gives the reader a fascinating picture of Rubens's career as an accomplished diplomat.
South Side
The Racial Transformation of an American Neighborhood
Av Louis Rosen
Häftad, 1999
227 kr
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A powerful and moving story of the racial transformation of an American neighborhood, told in memoir and oral narrative. It deserves to become a classic....This text needs to be understood and performed at least as regularly as Thornton Wilder's Our Town. —Sandy Primm, St. Louis Post-Dispatch
Dawning of the Raj
The Life and Trials of Warren Hastings
Inbunden, 2000
309 kr
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Nothing in the history of empire is stranger than the creation of British rule in India, when a small European island became master of a subcontinent ranging from the Indian Ocean to the Himalayas. In the late eighteenth century the person most responsible for this was Warren Hastings, Britain's …
Red Smith on Baseball
The Game's Greatest Writer on the Game's Greatest Years
Av Red Smith
Inbunden, 2000
294 kr
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Red Smith's writing is recognized as the best in the field. Here is a selection of his most memorable columns—175 of them, from 1941 to 1981. His prose...offers lasting lessons about matters journalistic and literary. —Robert Schmuhl, University of Notre Dame. The most admired and gifted …
