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From Racism to Genocide

Anthropology in the Third Reich

By: Gretchen Engle Schafft

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From Racism to Genocide

Anthropology in the Third Reich

By: Gretchen Engle Schafft

From Racism to Genocide is an explosive, richly detailed account of how Nazi anthropologists justified racism, developed practical applications of racist theory, and eventually participated in every phase of the Holocaust. Using original sources, correspondence between anthropologists of the time, and previously unpublished documentation, Gretchen Schafft shows the total range of anti-human activity from within the confines of a particular discipline. Based on seven years of archival research in this country and abroad, the work includes many original photos and documents, most of which have never before been published. It uses primary data and original texts whenever possible, including correspondence written by perpetrators. A discussion of Hitler's final solution, Nazi slave labor, and the rape of occupied Poland reveal the full horror of the Third Reich. Embedded concepts of scientism, denial, academic responsibility, and race contribute to understanding some of today's most pressing social science issues. The book also reveals that the United States was not merely a bystander in this research, but instead contributed scientific and financial support to early racial r

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University of Illinois Press

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0252029305

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The Stolen Adventures of Jennifer Wallawallabingbang

By: Gretchen R. Volk

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The Stolen Adventures of Jennifer Wallawallabingbang

By: Gretchen R. Volk

A child living with her self-absorbed stepmother has her stories stolen by a woman who would like to be a famous author.

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206

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0557705053

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9780557705054

Italy in the German Literary Imagination

Goethe's "Italian Journey" and Its Reception by Eichendorff, Platen, and Heine

By: Gretchen L. Hachmeister

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Italy in the German Literary Imagination

Goethe's "Italian Journey" and Its Reception by Eichendorff, Platen, and Heine

By: Gretchen L. Hachmeister

The German fascination with Italy, as seen in Goethe's Italian Journey and in a number of literary reactions to it. Italy has long exerted a particular fascination on the Germans, and this has been reflected in German literature, most prominently in Goethe's Italienische Reise but also by numerous other writers who have returned to the topic. This book is concerned with two inextricably linked images - those of the German traveler in Italy and of Italy in German literature in the first third of the 19th century. Goethe's publication of his account nearly three decades after his actual journey was in some measure a vehicle to resist the challenge of a new generation of writers, who in turn would confront what they found to be a questionable, if not altogether false, representation. Hachmeister emphasizes the consequences of the disparity between the reality of Goethe's journey and his depiction of it, taking into consideration also his occasional discomfort with Italy's classical past. She shows how the German predilection for Italy is unique in the larger European cultural context of the Grand Tour, before moving on to chapters that contain readings of Italienische Reise and Goethe's Römische Elegien. Individual chapters follow on Eichendorff's Aus dem Leben eines Taugenichts, Platen's Sonette aus Venedig, and Heine's three Italian Reisebilder, each of which is to some degree a reaction to Goethe's work. These chapters investigatehow the individual's reaction to Italy reflects his view of Germany and the author's role in early 19th-century German society. The conclusion offers a short glance at the continued evolution of the German fascination with Italyin the mid- and late nineteenth century. Gretchen Hachmeister received her Ph.D. in German literature from Yale University.

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Camden House

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1571132260

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9781571132260

The Pcos Mood Cure

Your Guide to Ending the Emotional Roller Coaster

By: Gretchen Kubacky Psy.D.

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The Pcos Mood Cure

Your Guide to Ending the Emotional Roller Coaster

By: Gretchen Kubacky Psy.D.

Have you tried almost everything to remedy your Polycystic Ovary Syndrome (PCOS) and havent been able to find relief? More than 200,000 women are diagnosed each year and suffer with everything from mood swings and weight gain, to acne and infertility. In The PCOS Mood Cure, author Dr. Gretchen Kubacky provides information and coping mechanisms for the mental health issues related to PCOS and gives you the tools to start feeling better today. With her characteristic warmth, compassion, and clarity, as well as a practical approach grounded in research, Dr. Kubacky shows you how to: Tame anxiety, irritability, and mood swings; Manage stress; Banish food cravings; Fix sleep problems, fatigue, and brain fog; Create a rock star medical team; Understand medication, supplements, and psychological diagnoses; Take charge of your health and happiness; and Feel hopeful again. Meant to educate, inspire, and encourage, The PCOS Mood Cure offers advice on dealing with the physical, psychological, and social consequences of this disease; gives you a sustainable plan; and suggests a path to freedom.

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iUniverse

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1532052189

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9781532052187

The Amazing Adventures of Tristy Ruth, Raisin Girl

By: Gretchen Volk

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The Amazing Adventures of Tristy Ruth, Raisin Girl

By: Gretchen Volk

Tristy Ruth has the meanest fifth grade teacher in the world. As she tries to survive school and her parents' expectations, she learns that she has a superpower that makes her special.

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Lulu.com

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1105515311

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9781105515316

The Likeness

Semblance and Self in Slovene Society

By: Gretchen Bakke

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The Likeness

Semblance and Self in Slovene Society

By: Gretchen Bakke

The Likeness is a close ethnographic study of subjectivity in the former Yugoslav republic of Slovenia. In this highly imaginative work, the author argues that much of what matters in Slovenia plays out on surfaces—of people and things, systems and locations—rendering the complexity of expression external and legible, but rarely unique or original. Here likenesses are everywhere in bloom and powerfully deployed. Moving blithely from Slovenia’s most famous thinkers to its most confounding artists, from grammatical categories of number to the particularities of history, The Likeness explores alternative modes of self-expression as postsocialist Slovenia gains visibility on the world stage.

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Univ of California Press

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0520974174

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9780520974173

Commemorating Hell

The Public Memory of Mittelbau-Dora

By: Gretchen E. Schafft,Gerhard Zeidler

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Commemorating Hell

The Public Memory of Mittelbau-Dora

By: Gretchen E. Schafft,Gerhard Zeidler

This powerful, wide-ranging history of the Nazi concentration camp Mittelbau-Dora is the first book to analyze how memory of the Third Reich evolved throughout changes in the German regime from World War II to the present. Building on intimate knowledge of the history of the camp, where a third of the 60,000 prisoners did not survive the war, Gretchen Schafft and Gerhard Zeidler examine the political and cultural aspects of the camp's memorialization in East Germany and, after 1989, in unified Germany. Prisoners at Mittelbau-Dora built the V-1 and V-2 missiles, some of them coming into direct contact with Wernher von Braun and Arthur Rudolph, who later became leading engineers in the U.S. space program. Through the continuing story of Mittelbau-Dora, from its operation as a labor camp to its social construction as a monument, Schafft and Zeidler reflect an abiding interest in the memory and commemoration of notorious national events. In extending the analysis of Mittelbau-Dora into post-war and present-day Germany, Commemorating Hell uncovers the intricate relationship between the politics of memory and broader state and global politics, revealing insights about the camp's relationship to the American space pioneers and the fate of the nearby city of Nordhausen.

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University of Illinois Press

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0252093054

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9780252093050

Life in the Tar Seeps

A Spiraling Ecology from a Dying Sea

By: Gretchen Ernster Henderson

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Life in the Tar Seeps

A Spiraling Ecology from a Dying Sea

By: Gretchen Ernster Henderson

At Great Salt Lake, near Robert Smithson’s iconic earthwork Spiral Jetty, a motley crew of scientists walks the mudflats to study fossils in the making. This reputedly dead sea is home to tar seeps, pools of raw oil (nicknamed ‘death traps’) that act as a preservative, encasing organisms as they were in life. In this spare landscape, an intricate web of life unfurls. Halophiles―salt-hungry microorganisms―tint the brackish water pink and orange; crystals of gypsum stud the ground, glistening underfoot; and pelicans and other migratory birds stop for a crucial rest. Barn owls and seagulls flirt with their prey around the seeping constellations, sometimes falling prey to the oil themselves. Gretchen Henderson came to the tar seeps, a kind of natural asphalt, after recovering from being hit by a car as she walked in a crosswalk―a manmade asphalt. Like the spiraling artwork that made Great Salt Lake’s north shore famous, Henderson’s associations of life and death, degeneration and regeneration, and injury and healing coalesced. As she reexamined pressing issues that this delicate area revealed about the climate crisis, her sense of ecology spiraled into other ways of perceiving the lake’s entangled lives. How do we move beyond narrow concepts of wounded and healed, the beautiful and the ugly, to care for ecosystems that evolve over time? How do we confront our vulnerability to recognize kindred dynamics in our living planet? Through shifting lake levels, bird migrations, microbial studies, environmental arts, and cultural histories shaped by indigenous knowledges and colonial legacies, Life in the Tar Seeps contemplates the ways that others have understood this body of water, enlivening more than this region alone. As Henderson witnesses scientists, arts curators, land managers, and students working collaboratively to steward a challenging place, she grows to see the lake not as dead but as a watershed for shifting perceptions of any overlooked place, offering a meditation on environmental healing across the planet. Henderson interweaves her journey with her own vivid photographs of tar seeps and pelican death assemblages, historic maps and contemporary art, as a wayfinding guide for exploring places of our own.

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Trinity University Press

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1595342745

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9781595342744

Because Internet

Understanding the New Rules of Language

By: Gretchen McCulloch

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Because Internet

Understanding the New Rules of Language

By: Gretchen McCulloch

AN INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER!! Named a Best Book of 2019 by TIME, Amazon, and The Washington Post A Wired Must-Read Book of Summer “Gretchen McCulloch is the internet’s favorite linguist, and this book is essential reading. Reading her work is like suddenly being able to see the matrix.” —Jonny Sun, author of everyone's a aliebn when ur a aliebn too Because Internet is for anyone who's ever puzzled over how to punctuate a text message or wondered where memes come from. It's the perfect book for understanding how the internet is changing the English language, why that's a good thing, and what our online interactions reveal about who we are. Language is humanity's most spectacular open-source project, and the internet is making our language change faster and in more interesting ways than ever before. Internet conversations are structured by the shape of our apps and platforms, from the grammar of status updates to the protocols of comments and @replies. Linguistically inventive online communities spread new slang and jargon with dizzying speed. What's more, social media is a vast laboratory of unedited, unfiltered words where we can watch language evolve in real time. Even the most absurd-looking slang has genuine patterns behind it. Internet linguist Gretchen McCulloch explores the deep forces that shape human language and influence the way we communicate with one another. She explains how your first social internet experience influences whether you prefer "LOL" or "lol," why ~sparkly tildes~ succeeded where centuries of proposals for irony punctuation had failed, what emoji have in common with physical gestures, and how the artfully disarrayed language of animal memes like lolcats and doggo made them more likely to spread.

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Penguin

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0735210942

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9780735210943

Forty Ways to Look at Winston Churchill

A Brief Account of a Long Life

By: Gretchen Rubin

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Forty Ways to Look at Winston Churchill

A Brief Account of a Long Life

By: Gretchen Rubin

Warrior and writer, genius and crank, rider in the British cavalry’s last great charge and inventor of the tank—Winston Churchill led Britain to fight alone against Nazi Germany in the fateful year of 1940 and set the standard for leading a democracy at war. Like no other portrait of its famous subject, Forty Ways to Look at Winston Churchill is a dazzling display of facts more improbable than fiction, and an investigation of the contradictions and complexities that haunt biography. Gretchen Craft Rubin gives readers, in a single volume, the kind of rounded view usually gained only by reading dozens of conventional biographies. With penetrating insight and vivid anecdotes, Rubin makes Churchill accessible and meaningful to twenty-first-century readers with forty contrasting views of the man: he was an alcoholic, he was not; he was an anachronism, he was a visionary; he was a racist, he was a humanitarian; he was the most quotable man in the history of the English language, he was a bore. In crisp, energetic language, Rubin creates a new form for presenting a great figure of history—and brings to full realization the depiction of a man too fabulous for any novelist to construct, too complicated for even the longest narrative to describe, and too valuable ever to be forgotten.

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Random House

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1588363848

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9781588363848

Born to Fight: Lincoln and Trump

By: Born to Fight: Lincoln and Trump

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Born to Fight: Lincoln and Trump

By: Born to Fight: Lincoln and Trump

Abraham Lincoln and Donald Trump are two of a kind despite terms in office separated by 150-plus years. Both encountered a biased press and deeply divisive political environments after being elected with less than 50 percent of the popular vote. Each was viewed as an ill-equipped outlier and accompanied to office by first ladies ostracized by Washington's elite. Lincoln was known by those closest to him for his supreme self-confidence, inexhaustible ambition, mean streak, braggadocio, arrogance, vanity, and knack for thriving amid conflict. Ditto Trump. Born to Fight shows that Trump is better understood through the many parallels linking him to Lincoln.

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Cedar Fort, Inc.

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1462139426

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9781462139422

German Pride

101 Reasons to Be Proud You're German

By: Gretchen Schmidt

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German Pride

101 Reasons to Be Proud You're German

By: Gretchen Schmidt

From classic automobiles (the Mercedes) to great women (Marlene Dietrich), this book takes a look at the incomparable German exports that have transfigured American music, art, film, literature, and sports.

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Citadel Press

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0806524812

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9780806524818

Precision Conservation

Goespatial Techniques for Agricultural and Natural Resources Conservation

By: Jorge A. Delgado,Gretchen F. Sassenrath,Tom Mueller

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Precision Conservation

Goespatial Techniques for Agricultural and Natural Resources Conservation

By: Jorge A. Delgado,Gretchen F. Sassenrath,Tom Mueller

Precision conservation is a reality, and we are moving towards improved effectiveness of conservation practices by accounting for temporal and spatial variability within and off field. This is the first book to cover the application of the principles of precision conservation to target conservation practices across fields and watersheds. It has clearly been established that the 21st century will present enormous challenges, from increased yield demands to climate change. Without improved conservation practices it will not be possible to ensure food security and conservation effectiveness. Readers will appreciate the application of the precision conservation concept to increase conservation effectiveness in a variety of contexts, with a focus on recent advances in technology, methods, and improved results. IN PRESS! This book is being published according to the “Just Published” model, with more chapters to be published online as they are completed.

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John Wiley & Sons

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0891183558

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9780891183556

The Amazing Adventures of Tristy Ruth, Raisin Girl

By: Gretchen Volk

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The Amazing Adventures of Tristy Ruth, Raisin Girl

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Tristy Ruth has the meanest fifth grade teacher in the world. As she tries to survive school and her parents' expectations, she learns that she has a superpower that makes her special.

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From Racism to Genocide

From Racism to Genocide

The Stolen Adventures of Jennifer Wallawallabingbang

The Stolen Adventures of Jennifer Wallawallabingbang

Italy in the German Literary Imagination

Italy in the German Literary Imagination

The Pcos Mood Cure

The Pcos Mood Cure

The Amazing Adventures of Tristy Ruth, Raisin Girl

The Amazing Adventures of Tristy Ruth, Raisin Girl

The Likeness

The Likeness

Commemorating Hell

Commemorating Hell

Life in the Tar Seeps

Life in the Tar Seeps

Because Internet

Because Internet

Forty Ways to Look at Winston Churchill

Forty Ways to Look at Winston Churchill

Born to Fight: Lincoln and Trump

Born to Fight: Lincoln and Trump

German Pride

German Pride

Precision Conservation

Precision Conservation

The Amazing Adventures of Tristy Ruth, Raisin Girl

The Amazing Adventures of Tristy Ruth, Raisin Girl

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