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The Gallery of Miracles and Madness

Insanity, Modernism, and Hitler's War on Art

By: Charlie English

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The Gallery of Miracles and Madness

Insanity, Modernism, and Hitler's War on Art

By: Charlie English

The untold story of Hitler’s war on “degenerate” artists and the mentally ill that served as a model for the “Final Solution.” “A penetrating chronicle . . . deftly links art history, psychiatry, and Hitler’s ideology to devastating effect.”—The Wall Street Journal As a veteran of the First World War, and an expert in art history and medicine, Hans Prinzhorn was uniquely placed to explore the connection between art and madness. The work he collected—ranging from expressive paintings to life-size rag dolls and fragile sculptures made from chewed bread—contained a raw, emotional power, and the book he published about the material inspired a new generation of modern artists, Max Ernst, André Breton, and Salvador Dalí among them. By the mid-1930s, however, Prinzhorn’s collection had begun to attract the attention of a far more sinister group. Modernism was in full swing when Adolf Hitler arrived in Vienna in 1907, hoping to forge a career as a painter. Rejected from art school, this troubled young man became convinced that modern art was degrading the Aryan soul, and once he had risen to power he ordered that modern works be seized and publicly shamed in “degenerate art” exhibitions, which became wildly popular. But this culture war was a mere curtain-raiser for Hitler’s next campaign, against allegedly “degenerate” humans, and Prinzhorn’s artist-patients were caught up in both. By 1941, the Nazis had murdered 70,000 psychiatric patients in killing centers that would serve as prototypes for the death camps of the Final Solution. Dozens of Prinzhorn artists were among the victims. The Gallery of Miracles and Madness is a spellbinding, emotionally resonant tale of this complex and troubling history that uncovers Hitler’s wars on modern art and the mentally ill and how they paved the way for the Holocaust. Charlie English tells an eerie story of genius, madness, and dehumanization that offers readers a fresh perspective on the brutal ideology of the Nazi regime.

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Random House

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0525512055

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9780525512059

Our Gohman Story

The Third Generation

By: Charlie Kunkel and Roy Evans

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Our Gohman Story

The Third Generation

By: Charlie Kunkel and Roy Evans

This book shares the stories of 65 Gohman ancestors who grew up next to the Mississippi River in Central Minnesota. They are the third-generation members of the Gohman family that immigrated from Lower Saxony, Germany, to the United States in 1843 and migrated from Cincinnati to Minnesota in 1855. The first and second generations are introduced briefly. The lives of the Third-Generation spanned a period from 1868 to 1991, an amazing 123 years. Generally engaged as farmers, they were diverse personalities who responded to life experiences in diverse ways. They lived through times of both great prosperity and deep poverty. They experienced two world wars and dramatically changing technology. This generation of the Gohman family thrived as they adapted to the changes in their lives from the horse and buggy times to the days of the jet plane.

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349

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1481739190

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The Art of Playing Mythos

A Tome of Arcane Knowledge

By: Scott D. Aniolowski,Shannon Appel,Charlie Krank

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The Art of Playing Mythos

A Tome of Arcane Knowledge

By: Scott D. Aniolowski,Shannon Appel,Charlie Krank

Mythos" is the most innovative collectable card game on the market. Unlike most collectable card games, it does not use a boardgame rule system. Instead, it goes back to traditional card games like Hearts, Bridge and Poker for its mechanics. This enables a simple and elegant rule set without the complicated timing problems of other games. It also means that everyone in the game is always involved, never having to wait while others complete their turn. Since its release, players have discovered and appreciated the simplicity of play and the depth of possibilities provided in the "Mythos" collectable card game. This tome reveals additional secrets about the game, and provides hints, strategies, and deck-building guidance for intrepid Mythos investigators everywhere.

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164

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Chaosium

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1568820615

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9781568820613

Rilke

The Life of the Work

By: Charlie Louth

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Rilke

The Life of the Work

By: Charlie Louth

The life of Rilke’s work is in its words, and this book attends closely to the life unfolding in Rilke’s words over the course of his career. What is a poem, and how does it act upon us as we read? What does reading involve? These are questions of the greatest interest to Rilke, who addresses them in several poems and for whom the experience of reading affords an interaction with the world—a recalibration of our ways of attending to it—which sets it apart from other kinds of experience. Rilke’s work is often approached in periods—he is the author of the New Poems, or of Malte, or of the Duino Elegies, or of the Sonnets to Orpheus—as if its different phases had little to do with one another, but in fact his writing is a concentrated and evolving exploration of the possibilities of poetic language, a working of the life of words into precise and exacting forms in dialogue with the texture of the world. The Life of the Work traces that trajectory in a series of close readings that do not neglect the lesser-known, uncollected verse and the poems in French, as well as Rilke’s activity as a translator of Michelangelo, Shakespeare, Barrett Browning, Mallarmé, and Valéry, among many others. These encounters were part of Rilke’s engagement with the world, his way of extending the reach of his language to get it ever closer to the ungraspable movements, the risk and promise, of life itself. One of his best-known poems ends with the words ‘You must change your life’, an injunction that animates the whole of his work.

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648

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Oxford University Press

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0192542699

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9780192542694

Bewusst schlafen und träumen

5 kraftvolle Praktiken, um Stress und Trauma zu verarbeiten

By: Charlie Morley

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Bewusst schlafen und träumen

5 kraftvolle Praktiken, um Stress und Trauma zu verarbeiten

By: Charlie Morley

Kämpfen Sie mit unruhigen Nächten? Dieser wissenschaftlich verifizierte, ganzheitliche Ansatz wird Ihnen helfen, Sie von stress- und traumabedingten Schlafstörungen zu heilen und besser zu schlafen. Inspiriert von seiner Arbeit mit Militärveteranen, erforscht der Schlafexperte Charlie Morley, wie man die schädlichen Auswirkungen von Stress und Traumata beseitigt, um erholsamen Schlaf und heilende Träume zu erreichen. In diesem Leitfaden stellt er mehr als 20 Körper-, Atem-, Schlaf- und Traumtechniken vor, die alle nachweislich dabei helfen, Angstzustände zu reduzieren, die Schlafqualität zu verbessern, Albträume zu integrieren, die Energie zu steigern und die eigene Beziehung zum Schlaf zu verändern. Dank seiner langjährigen Erfahrung und neuester wissenschaftlicher Erkenntnisse erläutert Charlie Morley ... • einen Fünf-Schritte-Plan, der die Schlafqualität bei fast 90 Prozent der Teilnehmer verbessert • die Wissenschaft, wie Stress und Trauma den Schlaf beeinflussen • die Yoga-Nidra-Praxis und Achtsamkeitsübungen für tiefe Entspannung • Atemübungen zur Regulierung des Nervensystems • klare Traummethoden zur Umwandlung von Albträumen Unabhängig davon, ob Sie einen gestressten Schlaf haben oder nicht – diese Methoden werden Ihnen helfen, die Zeit, die Sie mit Träumen verbringen, zu optimieren, damit Sie besser schlafen und gesünder aufwachen.

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240

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Next Level Verlag

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3949458476

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9783949458477

Cthulhu for President

A Beer and Pretzles Roleplaying Game

By: Chris O'Neill,Daniel Landis

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Cthulhu for President

A Beer and Pretzles Roleplaying Game

By: Chris O'Neill,Daniel Landis

The Aeon of the Elder Party has Arrived. Have you lost all hope in the future? Tired of Big Government? Sick of greedy, corrupt officials? You are not alone! Become one with the Elder Party! The greatest evil in the universe just sunk to new depths¿, and has announced his intention to enter politics. Don't settle for the lesser evil! Heed the call of Cthulhu! Get ready for muck-raking, magic, and mayhem (with a little help from the world of H. P. Lovecraft.) The Stars Are Right! In Cthulhu For President, you become an Elder Party staffer tasked with serving the Great Old Ones during their eternal struggle for domination. Cross wits with the other political parties, manipulate voters using non-Euclidian geometry, swear on the Necronomicon, and sacrifice your co-workers to the Elder Gods. Politics has always been evil, but destroying the world has never been so much fun! Cthulhu For President is a complete roleplaying game with rules for character generation, skills, combat, and magic in the shadowy world of occult national politics. A Campaign Manager¿ section includes adventure seeds, political enemies, game-master secrets, and a ready-to-run adventure. Strange Aeons Are Upon Us! Chaosium Inc. and 9th Level Games became strange political bedfellows to bring to life the mind-bending horror that is an election year.

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156882243X

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