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The Dolomites and their legends

By: Karl Felix Wolff

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The Dolomites and their legends

By: Karl Felix Wolff

The Dolomites, a range of mountains in the Southern Alps, are widely celebrated for their bizarre rock formations, light colour hues, and pristine nature. It is no coincidence that UNESCO declared the Pale Mountains a World Heritage Site and that, every single year, they attract tourists and nature enthusiasts from all around the globe. This enchanting mountain landscape, which is oftentimes cool and forbidding, has left an indelible mark on its inhabitants. Their veritable treasure trove of myths, legends and mystery stories is an integral part of the rich cultural heritage of the Dolomites: the older generation has always passed down this heritage to a wide-eyed audience comprised of both the young and the young-at-heart. This compilation by Karl Felix Wolff (1879-1966), probably the most prominent regional writer-explorer of legends, contains well-known tales like "King Laurin and the Alp-Glow" and "The Kingdom of the Fanes" in addition to lesser known stories such as "The Nightingale of the Sasslong", "Iron Hand" and "Merisana's Wedding". This book is a unique collection on your perspective of the Dolomites.

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887283452X

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Capital

Critique of Political Economy, Volume 1

By: Karl Marx

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Capital

Critique of Political Economy, Volume 1

By: Karl Marx

Marx for the twenty-first century The first new English translation in fifty years—and the only one based on the last German edition revised by Marx himself Featuring extensive original commentary, including a foreword by acclaimed political theorist Wendy Brown “An astounding achievement.”—China Miéville, author of October: The Story of the Russian Revolution Karl Marx (1818–1883) was living in exile in England when he embarked on an ambitious, multivolume critique of the capitalist system of production. Though only the first volume saw publication in Marx’s lifetime, it would become one of the most consequential books in history. This magnificent new edition of Capital is a translation of Marx for the twenty-first century. It is the first translation into English to be based on the last German edition revised by Marx himself, the only version that can be called authoritative, and it features extensive commentary and annotations by Paul North and Paul Reitter that draw on the latest scholarship and provide invaluable perspective on the book and its complicated legacy. At once precise and boldly readable, this translation captures the momentous scale and sweep of Marx’s thought while recovering the elegance and humor of the original source. For Marx, our global economic system is relentlessly driven by “value”—to produce it, capture it, trade it, and, most of all, to increase it. Lifespans are shortened under the demand for ever-greater value. Days are lengthened, work is intensified, and the division of labor deepens until it leaves two classes, owners and workers, in constant struggle for life and livelihood. In Capital, Marx reveals how value came to tyrannize our world, and how the history of capital is a chronicle of bloodshed, colonization, and enslavement. With a foreword by Wendy Brown and an afterword by William Clare Roberts, this is a critical edition of Capital for our time, one that faithfully preserves the vitality and directness of Marx’s German prose and renders his ideas newly relevant to modern readers.

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Princeton University Press

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0691240469

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9780691240466

The Mammoth Book of Losers

By: Karl Shaw

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The Mammoth Book of Losers

By: Karl Shaw

This compendious celebration of ineptitude includes some of history’s most spectacularly ill-conceived expeditions and entirely useless pursuits, and features tales of black comedy, insane foolhardiness, breathtaking stupidity and relentless perseverance in the face of inevitable defeat. It rejoices in men and women made of the Wrong Stuff: writers who believed in the power of words, but could never quite find the rights ones; artists and performers who indulged their creative impulse with a passion, if not a sense of the ridiculous, an eye for perspective or the ability to hold down a tune; scientists and businessmen who never quite managed to quit while they were ahead; and sportsmen who seemed to manage always to snatch defeat from the jaws of victory. Like Walter Oudney, one of three men chosen to find the source of the River Niger in Africa, who could not ride a horse, nor speak any foreign languages and who had never travelled more than 30 miles beyond his native Edinburgh; or the explorer-priest Michel Alexandre de Baize, who set off to explore the African continent from east to west equipped with 24 umbrellas, some fireworks, two suits of armor, and a portable organ; or the Scottish army which decided to invade England in 1349 – during the Black Death. Entries include: briefest career in dentistry; least successful bonding exercise; most futile attempt to find a lost tribe; most pointless lines of research by someone who should have known better; least successful celebrity endorsement; least convincing excuse for a war; worst poetic tribute to a root vegetable; least successful display of impartiality by a juror; Devon Loch – sporting metaphor for blowing un unblowable lead; least dignified exit from office by a French president; and least successful expedition by camel.

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Robinson

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1780338317

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9781780338316

Undine

in large print

By: Friedrich Heinrich Karl de la Motte Fouqué

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Undine

in large print

By: Friedrich Heinrich Karl de la Motte Fouqué

Reproduction of the original.

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BoD – Books on Demand

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3368623877

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9783368623876

The Mental Game Of Baseball

A Guide to Peak Performance

By: H. A. Dorfman,Karl Kuehl

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The Mental Game Of Baseball

A Guide to Peak Performance

By: H. A. Dorfman,Karl Kuehl

In this book, authors H.A. Dorfman and Karl Kuehl present their practical and proven strategy for developing the mental skills needed to achieve peack performance at every level of the game.

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Taylor Trade Publications

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1888698543

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9781888698541

The Magic Ring, a Knightly Romance

By: De La Motte Fouqué,Friedrich Heinrich Karl

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The Magic Ring, a Knightly Romance

By: De La Motte Fouqué,Friedrich Heinrich Karl

Reprint of the original, first published in 1876.

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338552640X

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9783385526402

William Shakespeare

By: L. Dora Schmitz,Karl Elze

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William Shakespeare

By: L. Dora Schmitz,Karl Elze

Reprint of the original, first published in 1876.

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666

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338549673X

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9783385496736

Levi's Children

Coming to Terms with Human Rights in the Global Marketplace

By: Karl Schoenberger

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Levi's Children

Coming to Terms with Human Rights in the Global Marketplace

By: Karl Schoenberger

In a cost-cutting move, Levi Strauss and Company sourced some production to overseas sweatshops. Using the company's painful lesson as a guide, a veteran journalist offers a highly readable assessment of the challenge that the human rights scourge poses to international business.

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Grove Press

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0802138128

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9780802138125

How Not to Make a Human

Pets, Feral Children, Worms, Sky Burial, Oysters

By: Karl Steel

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How Not to Make a Human

Pets, Feral Children, Worms, Sky Burial, Oysters

By: Karl Steel

From pet keeping to sky burials, a posthuman and ecocritical interrogation of and challenge to human particularity in medieval texts Mainstream medieval thought, like much of mainstream modern thought, habitually argued that because humans alone had language, reason, and immortal souls, all other life was simply theirs for the taking. But outside this scholarly consensus teemed a host of other ways to imagine the shared worlds of humans and nonhumans. How Not to Make a Human engages with these nonsystematic practices and thought to challenge both human particularity and the notion that agency, free will, and rationality are the defining characteristics of being human. Recuperating the Middle Ages as a lost opportunity for decentering humanity, Karl Steel provides a posthuman and ecocritical interrogation of a wide range of medieval texts. Exploring such diverse topics as medieval pet keeping, stories of feral and isolated children, the ecological implications of funeral practices, and the “bare life” of oysters from a variety of disanthropic perspectives, Steel furnishes contemporary posthumanists with overlooked cultural models to challenge human and other supremacies at their roots. By collecting beliefs and practices outside the mainstream of medieval thought, How Not to Make a Human connects contemporary concerns with ecology, animal life, and rethinkings of what it means to be human to uncanny materials that emphasize matters of death, violence, edibility, and vulnerability.

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U of Minnesota Press

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145296002X

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9781452960029

Kingmakers: The Invention of the Modern Middle East

By: Shareen Blair Brysac,Karl E. Meyer

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Kingmakers: The Invention of the Modern Middle East

By: Shareen Blair Brysac,Karl E. Meyer

A brilliant narrative history tracing today’s troubles back to the grandiose imperial overreach of Great Britain and the United States. Kingmakers is the gripping story of how the modern Middle East came to be, as told through the lives of the Britons and Americans who shaped it. Some are famous (Lawrence of Arabia and Gertrude Bell); others infamous (Harry St. John Philby, father of Kim); some forgotten (Sir Mark Sykes, Israel’s godfather, and A. T. Wilson, the territorial creator of Iraq). All helped enthrone rulers in a region whose very name is an Anglo-American invention. The aim of this engrossing character-driven narrative is to restore to life the colorful figures who gave us the Middle East in which Americans are enmeshed today.

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W. W. Norton & Company

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0393342433

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9780393342437

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The Dolomites and their legends

The Dolomites and their legends

Capital

Capital

The Mammoth Book of Losers

The Mammoth Book of Losers

Undine

Undine

The Mental Game Of Baseball

The Mental Game Of Baseball

The Magic Ring, a Knightly Romance

The Magic Ring, a Knightly Romance

William Shakespeare

William Shakespeare

Levi's Children

Levi's Children

How Not to Make a Human

How Not to Make a Human

Kingmakers: The Invention of the Modern Middle East

Kingmakers: The Invention of the Modern Middle East

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