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Berlin in Lights

The Diaries of Count Harry Kessler, 1918-1937

By: Graf Harry Kessler

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Berlin in Lights

The Diaries of Count Harry Kessler, 1918-1937

By: Graf Harry Kessler

Vibrantly bringing to life the frenetic, constantly changing mood of Germany and Europe between the wars, Berlin in Lights is a fascinating collection of diaries written by German aristocrat Harry Kessler, a diplomat and publisher who moved easily among the world of art, politics, and society. Kessler's diaries encompass an extraordinary variety of people from Einstein, Josephine Baker, and Bertolt Brecht to Virginia Woolf, Jean Cocteau, and Andre Gide, to name a few. Recording firsthand the agonizing collapse and death of Weimar Germany and the arrival of the Nazis, as well as the artistic and cultural movements that flourished then, his diaries beautifully encapsulate the tumultuous years between the two world wars. Book jacket.

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Grove Press

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080213839X

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9780802138392

The Beast, the Emperor and the Milkman

A Bone-shaking Tour through Cycling’s Flemish Heartlands

By: Harry Pearson

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The Beast, the Emperor and the Milkman

A Bone-shaking Tour through Cycling’s Flemish Heartlands

By: Harry Pearson

***SHORTLISTED FOR THE TELEGRAPH SPORTS BOOK AWARDS 2020 – CYCLING BOOK OF THE YEAR*** ***LONGLISTED FOR THE WILLIAM HILL SPORTS BOOK OF THE YEAR 2019*** 'A joy.' – Ned Boulting Every nation shapes sport to test the character traits it most admires. In The Beast, the Emperor and the Milkman, committed Belgophile and road cycling obsessive Harry Pearson takes you on a journey across Flanders, through the lumpy horizontal rain, up the elbow juddering cobbled inclines, past the fans dressed as chickens and the shop window displays of constipation medicines, as he follows races big, small and even smaller through one glorious, muddy spring. Ranging over 500 years of Flemish and European history, across windswept polders, along back roads and through an awful lot of beer cafes, Pearson examines the characters, the myths and rivalries that make Flanders a place where cycling is a religion and the riders its lycra-clad priests.

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Bloomsbury Publishing

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1472945034

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9781472945037

Dictionary of the Renaissance

By: Harry E. Wedeck,Frederick M. Schweitzer

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Dictionary of the Renaissance

By: Harry E. Wedeck,Frederick M. Schweitzer

This A-to-Z reference offers a survey of Renaissance personalities, innovations, and other terminologies with an in-depth introduction about the period. By the fourteenth century, Italian society bore little resemblance to that of the feudal age. Merchants and financiers were establishing a new social order with greater freedom than their counterparts north of the Alps. This meant that cultural transformations would first flourish in Italy and later be carried to the rest of the continent. Dictionary of the Renaissance is a comprehensive reference guide to the period, including informative entries about major artists and other important figures, significant events and locations, and other key terms and concepts associated with the Renaissance. The introduction provides a historic overview of the cultural, political, economic, and scientific transformations that occurred in Italy between the fourteenth and seventeenth centuries.

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Open Road Media

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1504067258

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9781504067256

Het Nederlandse beroepsonderwijs

valt daar iets aan te doen?

By: Harry van Lingen

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Het Nederlandse beroepsonderwijs

valt daar iets aan te doen?

By: Harry van Lingen

Since 1953, the year in which the first European School was founded, publications and systematic research on this unique form of international nursery, primary and secondary education have been limited and fragmented leaving it as relatively blank spot in the international education arena. This book is the first-ever in the almost 60-year history of the European School that removes the obscurity and misconceptions that exist about it in a comprehensive manner. It describes, analyses and evaluates its position emanating from the main research question: what are the most important causes for its rise, what developments has it seen and what results has it achieved considering the studies and careers of its alumni. Furthermore, it is critical of some of its practices, makes suggestions for improvements and opens a debate about future developments. It also touches on current internationalisation efforts and structures in secondary and higher education in some European countries.

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Maklu

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9044128140

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9789044128147

Verguisd en vergeten (3 vols.)

Tan Malaka, de linkse beweging en de Indonesische Revolutie, 1945-1949

By: Harry A. Poeze

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Verguisd en vergeten (3 vols.)

Tan Malaka, de linkse beweging en de Indonesische Revolutie, 1945-1949

By: Harry A. Poeze

De legendarische en mysterieuze Tan Malaka verscheen, na twintig jaar verbanning en ondergrondse actie, kort na de Proclamatie van de Indonesische onafhankelijkheid op 17 augustus 1945 weer in de openbaarheid. Hij bood een radicaal alternatief voor de gematigde koers van Soekarno en Hatta, het leidersduo van de Republik Indonesia, maar hij dolf het onderspit en werd in maart 1946 gevangengezet. Pas in september 1948 kwam hij vrij. Hij richtte toen de Partai Murba op, die de plaats wilde innemen van de in de Madioen-opstand neergeslagen communistische partij. Na de Nederlandse militaire actie van december 1948 volgde hij het guerrillaverzet; in februari 1949 werd hij doodgeschoten bij een interne afrekening. Tan Malaka's levensloop is vaak in mysterie gehuld. In dit boek wordt dit grotendeels ontrafeld, zoals ook waar en door wie hij om het leven werd gebracht. Zijn prominente rol tijdens de Indonesische Revolutie—actief en als symbool—maken het noodzakelijk uitgebreid de politieke verwikkelingen in de Republik en in de verdeelde linkse beweging te beschrijven. In vele opzichten worden over doorslaggevende gebeurtenissen in de Revolutie nieuwe gegevens en visies verschaft. In een uitgebreide epiloog worden de lotgevallen gevolgd van Tan Malaka's geesteskind Partai Murba en van Tan Malaka's naleven, dat zich pas sinds kort aan de kenschets 'verguisd en vergeten' begint te onttrekken.

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BRILL

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900425403X

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9789004254039

White House Interpreter

The Art of Interpretation

By: Harry Obst

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White House Interpreter

The Art of Interpretation

By: Harry Obst

Harry Obst 1932 born in Konigsberg, East Prussia, Germany 1949 escapes from communist East Germany 1949-50 coal miner in Essen, West Germany 1954 high school diploma in Essen-Werden 1954-56 studies languages, translation, law 1956 graduates from Mainz University 1957 emigrates More ... to the United States 1957-65 marketing and management positions in private industry 1963 becomes American citizen 1965-84 Diplomatic Interpreter, U.S. Department of State, Washington interprets for seven American presidents through 1996 1970-2008 lectures in Europe on the U.S. political, economic, and cultural scene lectures and gives seminars on interpretation in the U.S. and Europe 1972 awarded the Grand Decoration of Merit by President Jonas of Austria 1973 German President Heinemann invites Obst to Berlin for a private discussion of the American cultural and political scene 1984-97 Director, Office of Language Services, U.S. Department of State in Washington, occasional White House interpreting by name request 1997 retires as member of the Senior Executive Service with merit awards from Secretary of State Madeleine Albright and USIA Director Duffey 1997-2004 Director and principal instructor, Inlingua School of Interpretation 1999-2000 gives interpreter training courses in Ulaan Baatar, Mongolia 2004-2010 writes and lectures in retirement ..."--Publisher description.

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1452006148

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The War for Independence and the Transformation of American Society

War and Society in the United States, 1775-83

By: Harry M. Ward

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The War for Independence and the Transformation of American Society

War and Society in the United States, 1775-83

By: Harry M. Ward

The War fo Independence had a substantial impact on the lives of all Americans, establishing a nation and confirming American identity. The War for Independence and the Transformation of American Society focuses on a conflict which was both civil war and revolution and assesses how Americans met the challenges of adapting to the ideals of Independence and Republicanism. The war effected political reconstruction and brought economic self sufficiency and expansion, but it also brought oppression of dissenting and ethnic minorities, broadened the divide between the affluent and the poor and strengthened the institution of slavery. Focusing on the climate of war itself and its effects on the lives of those who lived through it, this book includes discussion of: *Recruitment and Society *The Home Front *Constraints on Liberty *Women and family during the war years *African Americans and Native Americans The War for Independence is a fascinating account of the wider dimension to the meaning of the American Revolution.

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Routledge

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1135361916

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9781135361914

Culture Under Canvas

The Story of Tent Chautauqua

By: Harry P. Harrison,Karl Detzer

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Culture Under Canvas

The Story of Tent Chautauqua

By: Harry P. Harrison,Karl Detzer

In 1904, a showman and Redpath Leyceum Bureau manager named Keith Vawter, put the main forms of entertainment of the time—comedy and culture—on the same platform in a travelling tent, “marrying the respectability of the Lyceum to the spangles of the stage,” and named the union “Chautauqua,” after an institution established permanently on Chautauqua Lake, New York. For the next thirty years, Chautauqua tents rolled back and forth and up and down America, pitching in pastures, school yards and courthouse squares. “They offered not only the soaring oratory of a William Jennings Bryan, but also music, drama, magic, art lessons, cooking classes, low comedy and high-minded debates. Millions of eager listeners under the “big top” canvas, hot with summer’s sun, perspired freely and soaked up both erudition and amusement.” This book, first published in 1958, takes a close look at the movement that allowed men to talk freely from this new informal platform, abandoning nineteenth-century taboos.

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Pickle Partners Publishing

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1787206157

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9781787206151

Covering the Cold War and Other Shadows in the Land of the Midnight Sun

By: Harry Heintzen

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Covering the Cold War and Other Shadows in the Land of the Midnight Sun

By: Harry Heintzen

A young reporter wants so badly to be a foreign correspondent that he leaves his job in the U.S. And heads for Scandinavia to try his luck. He encounters a weird, white world and quickly finds himself covering the Cold War between Finland And The Soviet Union, For which he is denounced in Pravda. He finds himself writing for a journalistic giant, The New York Herald-Tribune, but which pays a pittance for his stories. He covers events in Sweden, Finland, Norway and Denmark, meeting such people as a Nobel Peace Prize winner, a Norwegian war hero, a singer/movie actress, a Prime Minister and a host of other interesting characters. He also meets and marries the girl of his dreams. Then, just as his money is about to run out, he unexpectedly wins a prestigious and lucrative journalism award that brings him back To The U. S. And recognition as a full-ledged foreign correspondent. Told in letters and rememberances, it is a story of suceeding against the odds in the Land of the Midnight Sun.

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1452011729

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9781452011721

Other Covenants

Alternate Histories of the Jewish People

By: Harry Turtledove,Robert Silverberg,Lavie Tidhar,Esther Alter,Gwynne Garfinkle,Elana Gomel,Rivqa Rafael,Jack Dann

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Other Covenants

Alternate Histories of the Jewish People

By: Harry Turtledove,Robert Silverberg,Lavie Tidhar,Esther Alter,Gwynne Garfinkle,Elana Gomel,Rivqa Rafael,Jack Dann

What if there are other timelines, other histories, other Jews? Would they still have a covenant with the one God, or would they know strange gods? Would they have survived banishment, pogrom and Holocaust? What if the Holocaust had not occurred? Or what if it had succeeded beyond Hitler's darkest dreams? Some of the world's greatest speculative fiction authors explore these roads not taken, and many others, in Other Covenants: Alternate Histories of the Jewish People, the first-ever anthology of Jewish alternate history fiction.

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Ben Yehuda Press

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1953829813

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9781953829818

Economic History of Europe

By: Melvin M. Knight,Harry Elmer Barnes,Felix Flügel

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Economic History of Europe

By: Melvin M. Knight,Harry Elmer Barnes,Felix Flügel

Originally published in 1930, this book is a detailed but lucid piece of historical writing which answers many questions about ancient and medieval history that are most important for understanding contemporary economic problems. The economic history of Europe in modern times is both the history of agriculture, industry and commerce of a continent over 5 centuries and the history of a series of changes in economic organization which have been dominant in making the modern world what it is. This book gives due weight to both of these aspects. As well as being an account of sequences of events, it is also an account of changing forms of economic activity, alterations of the economic structure of society and emerging economic problems in the 20th Century.

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Taylor & Francis

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1000816087

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9781000816082

Through Veld and Forest

By: Harry Collingwood

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Through Veld and Forest

By: Harry Collingwood

Reproduction of the original: Through Veld and Forest by Harry Collingwood

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BoD – Books on Demand

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3734028426

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9783734028427

Destroyer Actions

September 1939 - June 1940

By: Harry Plevy

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Destroyer Actions

September 1939 - June 1940

By: Harry Plevy

Utilising eye-witness accounts of those who participated in them, Destroyer Actions focuses on the human side of naval operations during the first eight months of the Second World War. Harry Plevy draws upon primary sources of both naval and civilian provenance, many of which are previously unpublished and therefore have never been available to the general reader. Extensively researched through comparison of British and German operational logs, and including first-hand evidence from Polish, French and Norwegian sources which reveal the true impact of the conflict at sea upon the lives of the people of all nations caught up in it, this book gives a comprehensive picture of destroyer actions at the beginning of the Second World War.

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The History Press

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0750979542

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9780750979542

Policy Analysis of Structural Reforms in Higher Education

Processes and Outcomes

By: Harry de Boer,Jon File,Jeroen Huisman,Marco Seeber,Martina Vukasovic,Don F Westerheijden

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Policy Analysis of Structural Reforms in Higher Education

Processes and Outcomes

By: Harry de Boer,Jon File,Jeroen Huisman,Marco Seeber,Martina Vukasovic,Don F Westerheijden

This book addresses the complex phenomenon in higher education of structural reforms in higher education systems. Across the globe, governments initiate comprehensive reforms of their higher education systems because they want their models to be the best and to excel at what they do. This regularly requires governments to change the higher education landscape to achieve their set objectives. Changes can include merger processes, the introduction of a new sector of higher education or a new type of higher education institution or excellence initiative. This book explores the current understanding of how successful such comprehensive reforms have been through an examination of eleven reform cases in European countries. For each reform, the different phases of the policy process – policy objectives, design, implementation, policy tools and evaluation – are systematically described and analysed to provide an overview of the factors that contribute to the success or failure of the reforms.

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Springer

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3319422375

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9783319422374

Book's by Harry Bergen

Berlin in Lights

Berlin in Lights

The Beast, the Emperor and the Milkman

The Beast, the Emperor and the Milkman

Dictionary of the Renaissance

Dictionary of the Renaissance

Het Nederlandse beroepsonderwijs

Het Nederlandse beroepsonderwijs

Verguisd en vergeten (3 vols.)

Verguisd en vergeten (3 vols.)

White House Interpreter

White House Interpreter

The War for Independence and the Transformation of American Society

The War for Independence and the Transformation of American Society

Culture Under Canvas

Culture Under Canvas

Covering the Cold War and Other Shadows in the Land of the Midnight Sun

Covering the Cold War and Other Shadows in the Land of the Midnight Sun

Other Covenants

Other Covenants

Economic History of Europe

Economic History of Europe

Through Veld and Forest

Through Veld and Forest

Destroyer Actions

Destroyer Actions

Policy Analysis of Structural Reforms in Higher Education

Policy Analysis of Structural Reforms in Higher Education

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