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Journey Through America

By: Wolfgang Koeppen

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This volume by one of the best known German authors of the postwar period, is one of observation, analysis, and writing, and is based on his 1958 trip to the United States. Here the author presents a portrait of the United States in the late 1950s: its major cities, its literary culture, its troubled race relations, its multi-culturalism and its vast loneliness, a motif drawn, in part, from Kafka's Amerika. A modernist travelogue, the text employs symbol, myth, and image, as if the author sought to answer de Tocqueville's questions in the manner of Joyce and Kafka. It is also a meditation on America, intended for a German audience and mindful of the destiny of postwar Europe under many Americanizing influences.

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Berghahn Books

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The Hothouse

By: Wolfgang Koeppen

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The Hothouse

By: Wolfgang Koeppen

A recovered masterpiece....Remarkable as a sidelong, searing appraisal of the legacy of the Nazi years."--Publishers Weekly, starred review

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W. W. Norton & Company

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The Hothouse

By: Wolfgang Koeppen

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The Hothouse

By: Wolfgang Koeppen

A recovered masterpiece....Remarkable as a sidelong, searing appraisal of the legacy of the Nazi years."--Publishers Weekly, starred review

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Death in Rome

By: Wolfgang Koeppen

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Death in Rome

By: Wolfgang Koeppen

Mirroring the social and political upheaval following the fall of Nazism, Koeppen offers the story of four members of a German family reunited by chance in the decaying beauty of postwar Rome.

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Journey Through America

By: Wolfgang Koeppen

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A Sad Affair

By: Wolfgang Koeppen

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A Sad Affair

By: Wolfgang Koeppen

A romantic roman à clef that tells the story of Sibylle, one of the greatest literary femmes fatales since Salomé.

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W. W. Norton & Company

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0393057186

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Pigeons on the Grass

By: Wolfgang Koeppen

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Pigeons on the Grass

By: Wolfgang Koeppen

Wolfgang Koeppen’s postwar masterpiece in a luminous new translation by the poet Michael Hofmann Pigeons on the Grass is told over a single day in Munich in 1948. The first new cinemas and insurance offices are opening atop the ruins, Korea and Persia are keeping the world in panic, planes rumble in the sky (but no one looks up), newspaper headlines announce war over oil and atomic bomb tests. Odysseus Cotton, a black man, alights at the station and hires a porter; Frau Behrend disowns her daughter; with their interracial love affair, Carla Behrend and Washington Price scandalize their neighbors—who still expect gifts of chocolate and coffee; a boy hustles to sell a stray dog; Mr. Edwin, a visiting poet, prepares for a reading; Philipp gives himself up to despair; Emilia sells the last of her jewelry; Alexander stars as the Archduke in a new German Super-production; and Susanne seeks out a night to remember. In Michael Hofmann’s words, “in their sum, they are the totality of existence.” Koeppen spares no one and sees all in this penetrating and intense novel that surveys those who remain, and those who have just arrived, in a damaged society. As inventive as Joyce and as compulsively readable as Dickens, Pigeons on the Grass is a great lost classic.

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New Directions Publishing

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081122919X

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9780811229197

Nazis, Islamists, and the Making of the Modern Middle East

By: Barry Rubin,Wolfgang G. Schwanitz

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Nazis, Islamists, and the Making of the Modern Middle East

By: Barry Rubin,Wolfgang G. Schwanitz

A groundbreaking account of the Nazi-Islamist alliance that changed the course of World War II and influences the Arab world to this day

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Yale University Press

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0300140908

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9780300140903

A History of German Literature

From the Beginnings to the Present Day

By: Wolfgang Beutin,Klaus Ehlert,Wolfgang Emmerich,Helmut Hoffacker,Bernd Lutz,Volker Meid,Ralf Schnell,Peter Stein,Inge Stephan

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A History of German Literature

From the Beginnings to the Present Day

By: Wolfgang Beutin,Klaus Ehlert,Wolfgang Emmerich,Helmut Hoffacker,Bernd Lutz,Volker Meid,Ralf Schnell,Peter Stein,Inge Stephan

Since the appearance of its first edition in Germany in 1979, A History of German Literature has established itself as a classic work used by students and anyone interested in German literature. The volume chronologically traces the development of German literature from the Middle Ages to the present day. Throughout this chronology, literary developments are set in a social and political context. This includes a final chapter, written for this latest edition, on the consequences of the reunification of Germany in 1990. Thoroughly interdiscipinary in method, the work also reflects recent developments in literary criticism and history. Highly readable and stimulating, A History of German Literature succeeds in making the literature of the past as immediate and engaging as the works of the present. It is both a scholary study and an invaluable reference work for students.

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1389

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Routledge

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1134928165

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9781134928163

Stirrings in the Archives

Order from Disorder

By: Wolfgang Ernst

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Stirrings in the Archives

Order from Disorder

By: Wolfgang Ernst

Like most of Wolfgang Ernst’s work, Das Rumoren der Archiv explored the concept of archival and media theory from a current cultural digital context. Ernst challenges the traditional perspective of the cultural heritage institution and how it relied on media for creating, storing and disseminating digital information. Archives have a place in a digital society, and the archivist’s role will be more increasingly vital in the future. As Ernst points out, his work will show a way out of the archive, away from the notion that the era of archive is coming to an end. Here is the long-awaited English translation of this seminal work exploring cultural heritage before the archives, throughout history, and from today into the future. Ernst work emphasized a need to recognize media as a method for capturing and preserving our collective cultural identity. It is vital that archivists promoted a greater awareness of how media technology augmented the creation, management, and dissemination of digital content.

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109

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Rowman & Littlefield

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1442253967

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Core Knowledge in Critical Care Medicine

By: Wolfgang Krüger,Andrew James Ludman

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Core Knowledge in Critical Care Medicine

By: Wolfgang Krüger,Andrew James Ludman

This book provides a detailed review of state of the art knowledge on critical care topics as well as the latest research findings. It covers the core aspects in excellent detail, but is not so comprehensive as to make its daily use unfeasible. For each condition considered, discussion of the pathophysiology is integrated with observations on diagnosis and treatment in order to allow a deeper understanding. The book is scientifically based, with extensive references to published research. This will allow readers to investigate their individual interests further and will enable physicians to justify measures by providing a coherent, evidence-based strategy and relevant citations where needed. Core Knowledge in Critical Care Medicine will appeal to experienced practitioners as an aide-mémoire, but will also be of great value to a wide range of more junior staff wishing to complement their background knowledge with important facts applicable to everyday practice.

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Springer

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3642549713

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9783642549717

The Law of Mass Action

By: Andrei B. Koudriavtsev,Reginald F. Jameson,Wolfgang Linert

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The Law of Mass Action

By: Andrei B. Koudriavtsev,Reginald F. Jameson,Wolfgang Linert

Why are atoms so small?' asks 'naive physicist' in Erwin Schrodinger's book 'What is Life? The Physical Aspect of the Living Cell'. 'The question is wrong' answers the author, 'the actual problem is why we are built of such an enormous number of these particles'. The idea that everything is built of atoms is quite an old one. It seems that l Democritus himself borrowed it from some obscure Phoenician source . The arguments for the existence of small indivisible units of matter were quite simple. 2 According to Lucretius observable matter would disappear by 'wear and tear' (the world exists for a sufficiently long, if not infinitely long time) unless there are some units which cannot be further split into parts. th However, in the middle of the 19 century any reference to the atomic structure of matter was considered among European physicists as a sign of extremely bad taste and provinciality. The hypothesis of the ancient Greeks (for Lucretius had translated Epicurean philosophy into Latin hexameters) was at that time seen as bringing nothing positive to exact science. The properties of gaseous, liquid and solid bodies, as well as the behaviour of heat and energy, were successfully described by the rapidly developing science of thermodynamics.

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Springer Science & Business Media

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3642567703

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9783642567704

A Sad Affair

By: Wolfgang Koeppen

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A Sad Affair

By: Wolfgang Koeppen

A romantic roman à clef that tells the story of Sibylle, one of the greatest literary femmes fatales since Salomé.

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Destination San Francisco

By: Wolfgang J. Fuchs,Karl Teuschl

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Destination San Francisco

By: Wolfgang J. Fuchs,Karl Teuschl

A guide to San Francisco. The illustrations are designed to complement the text which describes the geographic and cultural background to each area featured. The historical scene is also set with an anthology of literary and journalistic accounts of previous visits from famous authors.

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1874111219

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Journey Through America

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The Hothouse

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Death in Rome

Death in Rome

Journey Through America

Journey Through America

A Sad Affair

A Sad Affair

Pigeons on the Grass

Pigeons on the Grass

Nazis, Islamists, and the Making of the Modern Middle East

Nazis, Islamists, and the Making of the Modern Middle East

A History of German Literature

A History of German Literature

Stirrings in the Archives

Stirrings in the Archives

Core Knowledge in Critical Care Medicine

Core Knowledge in Critical Care Medicine

The Law of Mass Action

The Law of Mass Action

A Sad Affair

A Sad Affair

Destination San Francisco

Destination San Francisco

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