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Another Hungary

The Nineteenth-Century Provinces in Eight Lives

By: Robert Nemes

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Another Hungary

The Nineteenth-Century Provinces in Eight Lives

By: Robert Nemes

Another Hungary tells the stories of eight remarkable individuals: an aristocrat, merchant, engineer, teacher, journalist, rabbi, tobacconist, and writer. All eight came from the same woebegone corner of prewar Hungary. Their biographies illuminate how the region's residents made sense of economic underdevelopment, ethnic diversity, and relations between Christians and Jews. Taken together, their stories create a unique picture of the troubled history of Eastern Europe, viewed not from the capital cities, but from the small towns and villages. Through these eight lives, Another Hungary investigates the wider processes that remade Eastern Europe in the nineteenth century. It asks: How did people make sense of the dramatic changes, from the advent of the railroad to the outbreak of the First World War? How did they respond to the army of political ideologies that marched through this region: liberalism, socialism, nationalism, antisemitism, and Zionism? To what extent did people in the provinces not just react to, but influence what was happening in the centers of political power? This collective biography confirms that nineteenth-century Hungary was no earthly paradise. But it also shows that the provinces produced men and women with bold ideas on how to change their world.

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Stanford University Press

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0804799121

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Mathematics in Twentieth-Century Literature & Art

Content, Form, Meaning

By: Robert Tubbs

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Mathematics in Twentieth-Century Literature & Art

Content, Form, Meaning

By: Robert Tubbs

The author of What Is a Number? examines the relationship between mathematics and art and literature of the 20th century. During the twentieth century, many artists and writers turned to abstract mathematical ideas to help them realize their aesthetic ambitions. Man Ray, Marcel Duchamp, and, perhaps most famously, Piet Mondrian used principles of mathematics in their work. Was it coincidence, or were these artists following their instincts, which were ruled by mathematical underpinnings, such as optimal solutions for filling a space? If math exists within visual art, can it be found within literary pursuits? In short, just what is the relationship between mathematics and the creative arts? In this exploration of mathematical ideas in art and literature, Robert Tubbs argues that the links are much stronger than previously imagined and exceed both coincidence and commonality of purpose. Not only does he argue that mathematical ideas guided the aesthetic visions of many twentieth-century artists and writers, Tubbs further asserts that artists and writers used math in their creative processes even though they seemed to have no affinity for mathematical thinking. In the end, Tubbs makes the case that art can be better appreciated when the math that inspired it is better understood. An insightful tour of the great masters of the last century and an argument that challenges long-held paradigms, this book will appeal to mathematicians, humanists, and artists, as well as instructors teaching the connections among math, literature, and art. “Though the content of Tubbs’s book is challenging, it is also accessible and should interest many on both sides of the perceived divide between mathematics and the arts.” —Choice

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Johns Hopkins University Press+ORM

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1421414023

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9781421414027

The White Rose

Carlton Chronicles 2

By: Robert Webber

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The White Rose

Carlton Chronicles 2

By: Robert Webber

The second in a series of novels taking its main characters through the Second World War. Set during the Finnish Winter War (1939-1940), events mostly unknown outside of Finland.

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Troubador Publishing Ltd

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1800468547

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9781800468542

Teddy's War

Carlton Chronicles 3

By: Robert Webber

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Teddy's War

Carlton Chronicles 3

By: Robert Webber

“…our service operates in the background, and now it appears that there may be lurking in that milieu a malevolent spirit that we need to flush out…” June 1940. The fledgeling Air Transport Auxiliary is rocked by a scandal that could ground the service before it has fully developed its wings. Teddy Carlton is approached by the acquaintance of an old school friend to help resolve the issue and thus embarks on a journey that sees her engaged in some of the most exciting work that a woman could perform in wartime. Her voyage sees Teddy embroiled in the secret world of espionage while exploiting her nascent skills in flying until she becomes one of the country’s top ferry pilots and a respected agent of the Security Service. Heartache and joy are her constant companions throughout her service, but the love for her family and her country keeps Teddy focused on the ultimate goal – the defeat of Nazi Germany... …and her husband only knew the half of it.

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1800463812

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The Crazy Immigrant

By: Robert G. Longpre

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The Crazy Immigrant

By: Robert G. Longpre

This story tells the journey of a young man that has him emigrate from a Galician village in the Ukraine to settle on the Canadian prairies. The story begins before his birth, and before the birth of his father. While he was growing up, the Ukraine was part of the Austrian empire and became a place of contention with Russia. Life's circumstances required that he escape to the safety of Canada.

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Retired Eagle Books

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1989019242

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Picturing Disability

Beggar, Freak, Citizen and Other Photographic Rhetoric

By: Robert Bogdan

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Picturing Disability

Beggar, Freak, Citizen and Other Photographic Rhetoric

By: Robert Bogdan

Bogdan and his collaborators have studied thousands of historical photographs of people with disabilities in writing this book. Their work shows how people with disabilities have been presented but in a much wider range than we have ever seen before.

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Syracuse University Press

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0815651929

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9780815651925

A Love of Reading, The Second Collection

More Reviews of Contemporary Fiction

By: Robert Adams

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A Love of Reading, The Second Collection

More Reviews of Contemporary Fiction

By: Robert Adams

Fourteen brilliant new reviews from the author of A Love of Reading. Passionate, thought provoking, and witty. A Love of Reading, the Second Collection contains 14 new reviews of modern classics from a discriminating, highly entertaining, and prodigiously well-read guide. In a stimulating selection, ranging from Margaret Atwood’s Alias Grace to Zadie Smith’s White Teeth, and from Charles Frazier’s Cold Mountain to Sheri Holman’s The Dress Lodger, popular literary critic Robert Adams skilfully interweaves a nimble and enlightening discussion of plot, theme, and characterization with fascinating historical, biographical, and literary context. Adams is repeatedly drawn to the spectacle of less-than-perfect humans making their way in a hostile world, and as a result his reviews are a hugely satisfying mix of rich pathos and abundant humour. In the words of the Calgary Herald, they are “a bibliophile’s dream.”

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McClelland & Stewart

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1551994488

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9781551994482

Light in the Dark

The Last Sanctuary from the Holocaust

By: Robert Marshall

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Light in the Dark

The Last Sanctuary from the Holocaust

By: Robert Marshall

An extraordinary true story of survival and courage through the Holocaust. Poland, 1943. It was the last refuge of the desperate, a warren of sewers underneath their city. Above, as the Nazis destroyed the ghetto of the city of Lvov, a small band of Jews escaped into a grim network of tunnels, living for fourteen months with the city's waste, the sudden floods, the fumes and the damp, the rats, the darkness, and the despair. Their only support was a lone sewer worker, an ex-criminal who constantly threatened to leave them. Many died; some falling into the rushing waters of the river, some simply of exhaustion. At one point the survivors found themselves trapped in a chamber, filling to the roof with storm-water. Yet survive they did, even infiltrating the camps above to find their missing relatives. When the Russians liberated Lvov, they emerged from the sewers filthy, bent double, emaciated, unrecognizable... but alive. This powerful story based on a long series of interviews, and a hitherto private diary, creates a blazing testimony to human faith and endurance.

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Canelo + ORM

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1800326416

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9781800326415

The Tanners

By: Robert Walser

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The Tanners

By: Robert Walser

The Tanners is a contender for Funniest Book of the Year."—The Village Voice The Tanners, Robert Walser’s amazing 1907 novel of twenty chapters, is now presented in English for the very first time, by the award-winning translator Susan Bernofsky. Three brothers and a sister comprise the Tanner family—Simon, Kaspar, Klaus, and Hedwig: their wanderings, meetings, separations, quarrels, romances, employment and lack of employment over the course of a year or two are the threads from which Walser weaves his airy, strange and brightly gorgeous fabric. Robert Walser—admired greatly by Kafka, Musil, and Walter Benjamin—is a radiantly original author. He has been acclaimed “unforgettable, heart-rending” (J.M. Coetzee), “a bewitched genius” (Newsweek), and “a major, truly wonderful, heart-breaking writer” (Susan Sontag). Considering Walser’s “perfect and serene oddity,” Michael Hofmann in The London Review of Books remarked on the “Buster Keaton-like indomitably sad cheerfulness [that is] most hilariously disturbing.” The Los Angeles Times called him “the dreamy confectionary snowflake of German language fiction. He also might be the single most underrated writer of the 20th century....The gait of his language is quieter than a kitten’s.” “A clairvoyant of the small” W. G. Sebald calls Robert Walser, one of his favorite writers in the world, in his acutely beautiful, personal, and long introduction, studded with his signature use of photographs.

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New Directions Publishing

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0811221326

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9780811221320

Mayhem on the Danube

By: Robert Landori

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Mayhem on the Danube

By: Robert Landori

MAYHEM ON THE DANUBE A Novel by Robert Landori Baghdad, October 2001. Chemical Ali, Saddam Husseins cousin, has a Weapon of Mass Destruction human, new variety Creutzfeldt-Jakob (Mad Cow) Disease against which there is no known cure. Ali plans to weaponize the virus in bulk, disguised as surgical glue, at a Hungarian facility, but first needs a vaccine to protect the True Believers against this deadly virus. He learns that the Canadian scientist, Jason Moscovitch, is feverishly working on such a vaccine. Ali recruits an Al Qaeda Snatch Team, composed of Iraqi, Bosnian and Jordanian elements, who kidnap the man. When the scientist refuses to work for the extremists the team kidnaps his mother as well. Robert Lonsdale, a contract officer with the CIAs Counter-Terrorism Division, is tasked to find and free Moscovitch. To succeed, he must first penetrate the unbelievably complex web of Islamic Factionalists involved in the case and then overcome European indifference to the growing menace of international terrorism. THIS IS AN ENTIRELY PLAUSIBLE AND TOPICAL TALE.

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146854912X

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The Assistant

By: Robert Walser

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The Assistant

By: Robert Walser

The Assistant by Robert Walser—who was admired greatly by Kafka, Musil, Walter Benjamin, and W. G. Sebald—is now presented in English for the very first time. Robert Walser is an overwhelmingly original author with many ardent fans: J.M. Coetzee ("dazzling"), Guy Davenport ("a very special kind of whimsical-serious-deep writer"), and Hermann Hesse ("If he had a hundred thousand readers, the world would be a better place"). Charged with compassion, and an utterly unique radiance of vision, Walser is as Susan Sontag exclaimed "a truly wonderful, heart-breaking writer." The Assistant is his breathtaking 1908 novel, translated by award-winning translator Susan Bernofsky. Joseph, hired to become an inventor's new assistant, arrives one rainy Monday morning at Technical Engineer Karl Tobler's splendid hilltop villa: he is at once pleased and terribly worried, a state soon followed by even stickier psychological complexities. He enjoys the beautiful view over Lake Zurich, in the company of the proud wife, Frau Tobler, and the delicious savory meals. But does he deserve any of these pleasures? The Assistant chronicles Joseph's inner life of cascading emotions as he attempts, both frantically and light-heartedly, to help the Tobler household, even as it slides toward financial ruin. Tobler demands of Joseph, "Do you have your wits about you?!" And Joseph's wits are in fact all around him, trembling like leaves in the breeze—he is full of exuberance and despair, all the raptures and panics of a person "drowning in obedience.

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0811222691

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Hicks, Tribes, and Dirty Realists

American Fiction after Postmodernism

By: Robert Rebein

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Hicks, Tribes, and Dirty Realists

American Fiction after Postmodernism

By: Robert Rebein

Robert Rebein argues that much literary fiction of the 1980s and 90s represents a triumphant, if tortured, return to questions about place and the individual that inspired the works of Hawthorne, Melville, Twain, Faulkner, and other giants of American literature. Concentrating on the realist bent and regional orientation in contemporary fiction, he discusses in detail the various names by which this fiction has been described, including literary postmodernism, minimalism, Hick Chic, Dirty Realism, ecofeminism, and more. Rebein's clearly written, nuanced interpretations of works by Raymond Carver, Cormac McCarthy, Don DeLillo, Louise Erdrich, Dorothy Allison, Barbara Kingsolver, E. Annie Proulx, Chris Offut, and others, will appeal to a wide range of readers.

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University Press of Kentucky

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0813184592

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Ruth Harriet Louise and Hollywood Glamour Photography

By: Robert Dance,Bruce Robertson

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Ruth Harriet Louise and Hollywood Glamour Photography

By: Robert Dance,Bruce Robertson

Published in conjunction with the Santa Barbara Museum of Art which is sponsoring the first major traveling exhibition of the glamour photography of Ruth Harriet Louise. Most of these photos are being seen for the first time in decades, and they may well lead to the elevation of Louise to the ranks of the great glamor portraitists.

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Univ of California Press

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0520233476

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The Stockholm Protocol

Carlton Chronicles 4

By: Robert Webber

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The Stockholm Protocol

Carlton Chronicles 4

By: Robert Webber

May 1943. Alex returns to MI3 to head up Section D, focusing on Scandinavia and the Netherlands, but his department is soon embroiled in controversy as a senior member is unmasked an enemy agent. How much did Alex know?

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Troubador Publishing Ltd

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1803131152

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9781803131153

Four Days in Hitler’s Germany

Mackenzie King’s Mission to Avert a Second World War

By: Robert Teigrob

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Four Days in Hitler’s Germany

Mackenzie King’s Mission to Avert a Second World War

By: Robert Teigrob

In 1937, Canadian Prime Minister Mackenzie King travelled to Nazi Germany in an attempt to prevent a war that, to many observers, seemed inevitable. The men King communed with in Berlin, including Adolf Hitler, assured him of the Nazi regime’s peaceful intentions, and King not only found their pledges sincere, but even hoped for personal friendships with many of the regime's top officials. Four Days in Hitler’s Germany is a clearly written and engaging story that reveals why King believed that the greatest threat to peace would come from those individuals who intended to thwart the Nazi agenda, which as King saw it, was concerned primarily with justifiable German territorial and diplomatic readjustments. Mackenzie King was certainly not alone in misreading the omens in the 1930s, but it would be difficult to find a democratic leader who missed the mark by a wider margin. This book seeks to explain the sources and outcomes of King’s misperceptions and diplomatic failures, and follows him as he returns to Germany to tour the appalling aftermath of the very war he had tried to prevent.

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University of Toronto Press

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1487505663

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Laboratory for World Destruction

Germans and Jews in Central Europe

By: Robert S. Wistrich

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Laboratory for World Destruction

Germans and Jews in Central Europe

By: Robert S. Wistrich

Published and distributed for the Vidal Sassoon International Center for the Study of Antisemitism During the sixty years between the founding of Bismarck’s German Empire and Hitler’s rise to power, German-speaking Jews left a profound mark on Central Europe and on twentieth-century culture as a whole. How would the modern world look today without Einstein, Freud, or Marx? Without Mahler, Schoenberg, Wittgenstein, or Kafka? Without a whole galaxy of other outstanding Jewish scientists, poets, playwrights, composers, critics, historians, sociologists, psychoanalysts, jurists, and philosophers? How was it possible that this vibrant period in Central European cultural history collapsed into the horror and mass murder of the Nazi Holocaust? Was there some connection between the dazzling achievements of these Jews and the ferocity of the German backlash? Robert S. Wistrich’s Laboratory for World Destruction is a bold and penetrating study of the fateful symbiosis between Germans and Jews in Central Europe, which culminated in the tragic denouement of the Holocaust. Wistrich shows that the seeds of the catastrophe were already sown in the Hapsburg Empire, which would become, in Karl Kraus’s words, “an experimental station in the destruction of the world.” Featured are incisive chapters on Freud, Herzl, Lueger, Kraus, Nordau, Nietzsche, and Hitler, along with a sweeping panorama of the golden age of Central European Jewry before the lights went out in Europe.

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U of Nebraska Press

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0803208693

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Promise the Infinite

By: Robert Richart

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Promise the Infinite

By: Robert Richart

This is an annotated bibliography of English language novels which feature libraries or librarians from the 18th to the 21st century. It includes descriptions and quotes from the text. It includes novels, mysteries, science fiction, fantasy, and romance.

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Lulu.com

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1365097544

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Worldly Acts and Sentient Things

The Persistence of Agency from Stein to DeLillo

By: Robert A. Chodat

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Worldly Acts and Sentient Things

The Persistence of Agency from Stein to DeLillo

By: Robert A. Chodat

Ants, ghosts, cultures, thunderstorms, stock markets, robots, computers: this is just a partial list of the sentient things that have filled American literature over the last century. From modernism forward, writers have given life and voice to both the human and the nonhuman, and in the process addressed the motives, behaviors, and historical pressures that define lives—or things—both everyday and extraordinary. In Worldly Acts and Sentient Things Robert Chodat exposes a major shortcoming in recent accounts of twentieth-century discourse. What is often seen as the "death" of agency is better described as the displacement of agency onto new and varied entities. Writers as diverse as Gertrude Stein, Saul Bellow, Ralph Ellison, and Don DeLillo are preoccupied with a cluster of related questions. Which entities are capable of believing something, saying something, desiring, hoping, hating, or doing? Which things, in turn, do we treat as worthy of our care, respect, and worship? Drawing on a philosophical tradition exemplified by Ludwig Wittgenstein and Wilfrid Sellars, Chodat shows that the death of the Cartesian ego need not entail the elimination of purposeful action altogether. Agents do not dissolve or die away in modern thought and literature; they proliferate—some in human forms, some not. Chodat distinguishes two ideas of agency in particular. One locates purposes in embodied beings, "persons," the other in disembodied entities, "presences." Worldly Acts and Sentient Things is a an engaging blend of philosophy and literary theory for anyone interested in modern and contemporary literature, narrative studies, psychology, ethics, and cognitive science.

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Cornell University Press

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0801462479

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9780801462474

In the Sewers of Lvov

By: Robert Marshall

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In the Sewers of Lvov

By: Robert Marshall

It was the last refuge of the desperate Jews-the warren of sewers underneath their city. Above, the Nazis implemented the destruction of their friends and relatives in a final Aktion against the ghetto in the Polish city of Lvov. A small band of Jews, however, escaped into the grim network of tunnels, there to live for fourteen months with the city's waste, the sudden floods that washed some of them away, the fumes and the damp, the rats, the darkness, and the despair. Their only support was a sewer worker, an ex-criminal who constantly threatened to leave them if they ran out of money. Many died; some of cyanide in mass suicide, some of falling into the rushing waters of the river, some simply of exhaustion. A baby was born and then murdered almost immediately. The group quarrelled, split into factions and threatened each other at gun point. The survivors found themselves at one point, trapped in a chamber filling to the roof with storm water. Yet survive they did, even infiltrating themselves into the camps above to find their missing relatives. When the Russians liberated Lvov, they emerged from the sewers filthy, bent double, emaciated, unrecognizable. When they opened their eyes their eye seemed blood red. Robert Marshall, author of All the King's Men, has written the harrowing story of the survivor's ordeal based on a long series of interviews and a hitherto private diary, creating a blazing testimony to human faith and endurance. In the Sewers of Lvov was the inspiration for Academy Award nominated In Darkness.

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A&C Black

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144821002X

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The Psychological Effects of Immigrating

A Depth Psychology Perspective on Relocating to a New Place

By: Robert Tyminski

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The Psychological Effects of Immigrating

A Depth Psychology Perspective on Relocating to a New Place

By: Robert Tyminski

Exploring immigration from psychological, historical, clinical, and mythical perspectives, this book considers the varied and complex answers to questions of why people immigrate to entirely new places and leave behind their familiar surroundings and culture. Using research reviews, extensive case material, and literary examples (such as Virgil’s The Aeneid), Robert Tyminski’s work will deepen readers’ understanding of what is both unique and universal about migratory experiences. He addresses the negative consequences of xenophobia, the acculturation experiences of children compared to adults, the trauma and psychological issues that arise when seeking refuge or relocating to a new country, and the more recent implications of COVID-19 upon border crossings. Tyminski also re-evaluates the term identity as a psychological shorthand, suggesting that it can flatten our understanding of human complexity and erase migrant and refugee life stories and differences. As one of few books to investigate immigration from a Jungian-oriented perspective, Robert Tyminski’s work offers a new and broad perspective on the mental health issues related to immigration. This book will prove essential for clinicians working with refugees and migrants, when in training and in practice, as well as students and practitioners of psychoanalysis seeking to deepen their understanding of migratory experiences.

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Taylor & Francis

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1000654796

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The Myth of the American Superhero

By: John Shelton Lawrence,Robert Jewett

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The Myth of the American Superhero

By: John Shelton Lawrence,Robert Jewett

As the nation seems to yearn for redemption from the evils that threaten its tranquility, the authors maintain that Joseph Campbell's monomythic hero is alive and well, but significantly displaced, in American popular culture.

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Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing

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0802825737

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9780802825735

Fatherland

By: Robert Harris

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Fatherland

By: Robert Harris

What would have happened if Hitler had won World War II?

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Harper Collins

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0061006629

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Backing Hitler

Consent and Coercion in Nazi Germany

By: Robert Gellately

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Backing Hitler

Consent and Coercion in Nazi Germany

By: Robert Gellately

The Nazis never won a majority in free elections, but soon after Hitler took power most people turned away from democracy and backed the Nazi regime. Hitler won growing support even as he established the secret police (Gestapo) and concentration camps. What has been in dispute for over fifty years is what the Germans knew about these camps, and in what ways were they involved in the persecution of 'race enemies', slave workers, and social outsiders. To answer these questions, and to explore the public sides of Nazi persecution, Robert Gellately has consulted an array of primary documents. He argues that the Nazis did not cloak their radical approaches to 'law and order' in utter secrecy, but played them up in the press and loudly proclaimed the superiority of their system over all others. They publicized their views by drawing on popular images, cherished German ideals, and long held phobias, and were able to win over converts to their cause. The author traces the story from 1933, and shows how war and especially the prospect of defeat radicalized Nazism. As the country spiralled toward defeat, Germans for the most part held on stubbornly. For anyone who contemplated surrender or resistance, terror became the order of the day.

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OUP Oxford

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0191604526

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9780191604522

BUCKETS OF BLOOD

By: Robert Firth

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BUCKETS OF BLOOD

By: Robert Firth

The "War to End All Wars" as it was erroneously and overly optimistically named, ended in 1918 followed by a brief interlude, a period of time for the Germany to coalesce and strengthen before again crying chaos and unleashing the vicious dogs of war. Exactly as before, it was the bloody-minded Germans who drove the entire world again into the abyss. In this war there was no excuse, no Arch Duke assassination- no nothing. We argue that the responsibility lies solely on the shoulders of a single individual. We will show that Adolph was the only man in Germany capable of motivating the German people sufficiently to enter another world war. By so doing, we are able to lay blame solely on one individual for the sixty million (or more) who were robbed of their lives in this calamitous, hideous and entirely avoidable tragedy. Had Adolph Hitler never been born, or perished in WWI, or hung by the Bavarian government in 1923, it is entirely likely that WWII would never have occurred. Hitler survived some 32 assassination attempts. Had one succeeded early on, I would likely not be writing this book and millions would still be alive.

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eBookIt.com

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1456635174

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Sibling Rivalry on a Grand Scale: The Devil's in the Details

By: Robert Akers

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Sibling Rivalry on a Grand Scale: The Devil's in the Details

By: Robert Akers

This is a follow up to Sibling Rivalry on a Grand Scale: Jacob & Esau. In Volume 1 the foundation was laid regarding this family feud that started about 4,000 years ago. Here in Volume 2 more details are given revealing just how current the Edomite's vendetta is with Jacob's descendants, and how it involves everyone.

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1105161854

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9781105161858

Street of Broken Dreams

By: Robert D'Artagnan

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Street of Broken Dreams

By: Robert D'Artagnan

How much does Time and Circumstance have to do with the design of our lives? Could people who are celebrities now perhaps have led undistinguished lives under other circumstances, in another time? And vice-versa...' Street of Broken Dreams attempts to examine that question. Another question examined is this... Could one of the great villains of History...if approached at the right time and place...could he have reformed himself before it was too late? But more, this novel follows four fascinating personalities as they try to meet the challenges described above inside the Nazi Germany of 1939. Unexpectedly, Albert Einstein comes to play a key role in everything... But it is all acted out on the stage of the world...the drama of life and death and destiny. Whose result affects us all. Then and in the foreseeable future...

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FDR's Funeral Train

A Betrayed Widow, a Soviet Spy, and a Presidency in the Balance

By: Robert Klara

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FDR's Funeral Train

A Betrayed Widow, a Soviet Spy, and a Presidency in the Balance

By: Robert Klara

The April 1945 journey of FDR's funeral train became a thousand-mile odyssey, fraught with heartbreak and scandal. As it passed through the night, few of the grieving onlookers gave thought to what might be happening behind the Pullman shades, where women whispered and men tossed back highballs. Inside was a Soviet spy, a newly widowed Eleanor Roosevelt, who had just discovered that her husband's mistress was in the room with him when he died, all the Supreme Court justices, and incoming president Harry S. Truman who was scrambling to learn secrets FDR had never shared with him. Weaving together information from long-forgotten diaries and declassified Secret Service documents, journalist and historian Robert Klara enters the private world on board that famous train. He chronicles the three days during which the country grieved and despaired as never before, and a new president hammered out the policies that would galvanize a country in mourning and win the Second World War.

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