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Ingram Book Group Hamburg: Architecture & Design : Book Overview International Architecture - European Book AnnotationsSince the days of the Hanseatic League H...

Germany (True Books) (Paperback) : Presents information on the geography, history, people, economy, and social life and customs of Germany, one...

Germany (True Books) (School And Library) : Presents information on the geography, history, people, economy, and social life and customs of Germany, one...

Casemate Pub & Book Dist Llc - A Hitler Youth: Growing Up In Germany In The 1930s (Hardcover) : The author describes his life growing up in Germany, detailing his family life, his association with the Hit...

Ingram Book Group Painting Explained By Thomas Gullick John : Book Overview Author s Gullick Thomas JohnTechniques - Painting Book AnnotationsPublisher MarketingA common ...

Dover Castles of the World-Coloring Book Castles of the World-Coloring Book : This carefully researched coloring book offers a fascinating pictorial survey of castles in varying styles f...

Ingram Book Group The Wirtz Gardens By Jacques, Wirtz/ Taylor, Patrick : Book Overview Author s Jacques Wirtz/ Taylor PatrickLandscape Book AnnotationsWirtz International the master...

Fodor S Exploring Germany (Fodor S Exploring Germany) (Paperback) : Gives facts, history, and data on Germany, and provides information on accommodations, restaurants, sights, ...

Germany For Dummies (Germany For Dummies) (Paperback) : A collection of lively, user-friendly travel guides provides accurate, up-to-date information and expert, op...

Travel Germany - HOME Travel Germany The Bells in Their Silence: Travels Through Germany Nobody writes travelogues about Germany. The country spurs many anxious volumes of investigative reporting--books that worry away at the "German problem," World War II, the legacy of the Holocaust, the Wall, reunification, and the connections between them. But not travel books, not the free-ranging and impressionistic works of literary nonfiction we associate with V. S. Naipaul and Bruce Chatwin. What is it about Germany and the travel book that puts them seeminly at odds? With one foot in the library ...

Arts E Germany Magazine Zines - HOME Arts E Germany Magazine Zines Speechless by Peter Kuper, A coffee-table art book of one of the most significant activist artists of our generation. Spanning three decades, Speechless will cover the career of artist Peter Kuper. From his co-founding days of "World War 3" (the longest running magazine in 'zine history), to Rolling Stone's Comic Artist of the Year, to major magazine cover illustrator and beyond. This full-color, hardcover collection will include dozens of unpublished illustrations and wordless comics in the unique stencil style that gave his DC/ ...

Personals Germany - HOME Personals Germany Over the Green Hill: A Personal Memoir, Germany 1913-1943 by Lotte Strauss, Originally published in Germany in 1997, Lotte Strauss's Over the Green Hill: A Personal Memoir, Germany 1913-43 was begun in 1975 as a letter to her daughter. It took twenty years to write the complete story, and by then it was no longer a letter, but a book. Lotte Schloss (her maiden name) was born one year before the outbreak of World War I. She spent her formative years in a postwar Germany that grew ...

Shopping in Germany - HOME Shopping in Germany Insight Guide Germany by Tony Halliday, Some travelers love nothing better than to bathe in the sun. Others revel in immersing themselves in history and culture. Then there are those who are born to shop. We all know the type. In fact, we might ourselves be the type. There are some people for whom shopping is not a necessity but a sport. Insight Shopping Guides are a play book for the avid shopper who wants to level the playing field when he or she competes against natives for the ...

Dusseldorf Germany - HOME Dusseldorf Germany Jackson Pollock: Works from the Museum of Modern Art, New York, and from European Collections by Jackson Pollock, X "On the floor I am more at ease, I feel nearer, more a part of the painting, since this way I can walk around in it, work from the four sides and be literally 'in' the painting." -- Jackson Pollock, 1947 Jackson Pollock (1912 - 1956) was the commanding figure of American Abstract Expressionism. By the mid-1940s, he was painting in a completely abstract manner, and the "drip and splash" style for which ... called him "Jack the Dripper." By the 1960s, however, he was generally recognized as the most important figure in this century's most important movement in American painting. His unhappy personal life and his premature death in a car crash contributed to his legendary status. This catalogue book was first published on the occasion of a noted exhibition at the Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen in Dusseldorf, Germany. It presents important paintings as well as graphic works from the New York Museum of Modern Art and from several European collections, for example, the Stedelijk Museum, ...

Germany Tourism - HOME Germany Tourism Seeing Hitler's Germany: Tourism in the Third Reich Seeing Hitler's Germany: Tourism in the Third Reich Egypt: An Economic Geography by Fouad N. Ibrahim, Egypt is almost the size of Britain, France, and Germany combined, yet its nearly 70 million people are forced by geographic factors to live in an area no bigger than Belgium. Only four percent of the land can sustain cultivation and life. In this illuminating book, the authors describe the myriad problems facing Egypt. They look food scarcity, the effects of water and land ...

Germany News - HOME Germany News The Inextinguishable Symphony: A True Story of Music and Love in Nazi Germany by Martin Goldsmith, "The Holocaust has hovered on the periphery of the American imagination for so many decades now, it’ s hard to believe a book could come along at this point to burn a whole new perspective into our consciousness. But that’ s just what Martin Goldsmith has done with this astonishing work. . . . Goldsmith [writes] with modesty, restraint, and skill . . . masterly."-SAN FRANCISCO CHRONICLE "A fascinating insight into a virtually unknown chapter of nazi rule in ...

Germany Vacation - HOME Germany Vacation The Spell of Italy: Vacation, Magic, and the Attraction of Goethe Wearied by his life as an administrator at the Duke's court in Weimar, in 1786 Johann Wolfgang von Goethe departed unannounced in the middle of the night for what had been the destination of his imagination since childhood: Italy. His extended stay there dramatically affected his views of art, architecture, prose, poetry, and science. When he returned to Germany and Weimar, Goethe's experiences translated into his life and work in ways that influenced countless others as they developed Germany's own brand of high culture. Death in Berlin by M. M. Kaye, Miranda Brand is visiting Germany for what is supposed to be ...

Berlin Germany - HOME Berlin Germany The Ghosts of Berlin: Confronting German History in the Urban Landscape by Brian Ladd, Berlin is once again the official capital of a united Germany and, perhaps, the metaphorical capital of a new Europe. In accordance with its received status, a series of massive architectural projects has been initiated, intended to restore, reveal, and reinvent both the physical and the symbolic city of Berlin. But to build a future, one must first examine the past. And Berlin's past is particularly troubling. In this elegant and compelling work, Brian Ladd ...

Hannover Germany - HOME Hannover Germany Elements of Dressage by Kurd Albrecht Von Ziegner, Drawing on centuries of European practice, The Elements of Dressage will help any reader perfect the union between horse and rider. Dressage has been around since the time of the ancient Greeks, but reached its heights in Europe, and particularly in Germany. The German approach is now the preferred method in most countries, and the author has been teaching it for more than fifty years. There are ten principal elements in the German method, and they include: relaxation, regularity, freedom, contact, straightness, and Durchlassigkeit. Both beginning and ...

Book Poetry - HOME Book Poetry A Poetry of Two Minds by Sherod Santos, The Life of Poetry: Poets on Their Art and Craft offers books by poets writing prose on their alluring and elusive genre. These books will help readers to understand the poems on the page as much as they help poets to understand the mechanics of the process. These vital and engaging books articulate the literary vision, aesthetic beliefs, and pleasure in poetry in a way only practicing poets can, and contribute to the long and lively tradition of poets writing on their ...

Germany Porcelain - HOME Germany Porcelain R. S. Prussia & More: Schlegelmilch Porcelain Featuring Cobalt This beautiful hardbound book contains over 2,000 items stunningly illustrated. R.S. Prussia and other Schlegelmilch porcelains are displayed with descriptions and suggested values. Cobalt is featured with several hundred examples. The author, a collector of this beautiful porcelain for 35 years, has made several visits to Germany and Poland, making the research both informative and a personal experience. The book contains articles that include factory and family history, categories (animal, bird, portrait, scenic, and floral), points of interest, marks, and ...

Book Composer Eight Index Music Soviet - HOME Book Composer Eight Index Music Soviet Poetics of Music in the Form by Igor Stravinsky, One of the greatest of contemporary composers has here set down in delightfully personal fashion his general ideas about music and some accounts of his own experience as a composer. Every concert-goer and lover of music will take keen pleasure in his notes about the essential features of music, the process of musical composition, inspiration, musical types, and musical execution. Throughout the volume are to he found trenchant comments on such subjects as Wagnerism, the operas of ... snobbery, the influence of political ideas on Russian music under the Soviets, musical improvisation as opposed to musical construction, the nature of melody, and the function of the critic of music. Musical people of every sort will welcome this first presentation in English of an unusually interesting book. Shostakovich: A Life Remembered by Elizabeth Wilson, Shostakovich: A Life Remembered is a unique study of the great composer Dimitri Shostakovich drawn from the reminiscences and reflections of his contemporaries. Using much material never previously published in English, as well as personal accounts from interviews ...

Book Finance Money New Personal - HOME Book Finance Money New Personal The 9 Steps to Financial Freedom: Practical & Spiritual Steps So You Can Stop Worrying by Suze Orman, Suze Orman has transformed the concept of personal finance for millions by teaching us how to gain control of our money -- so that money does not control us. She goes beyond the nuts and bolts of managing money to explore the psychological, even spiritual power money has in our lives. The 9 Steps to Financial Freedom is the first personal finance book that gives you not only the knowledge of how to handle money, but also the will to break through all the barriers that hold you back. Combining real-life recommendations with the motivation to overcome financial anxieties, Suze Orman offers the keys to providing for ...

Book Book Decorating Idea Idea - HOME Book Book Decorating Idea Idea 101 Spooktacular Party Ideas: Fun Halloween Recipes, Games, Decorations and Craft Ideas for Ghosts and Ghouls of All Ages by Linda Sadler, Planning a Halloween party has never been easier! Whether you are having a few neighborhood children over, or are throwing a huge Halloween bash, 101 Spooktacular Party Ideas will help you plan an unforgettable Halloween party. It is filled with ideas that will help you haunt your house with bootiful decorations, serve sinisterly delectable treats, play bone chilling games and make fiendishly fun crafts and ...

History of Germany - HOME History of Germany The History of Germany by Eleanor L. Turk, X Every library should replace its outdated histories of Germany with this comprehensive and highly readable narrative history that traces Germany from antiquity through 1998. Unlike earlier studies written before unification, it offers up-to-date information on the Federal Republic of Germany in a refreshing and contemporary perspective without the Cold War rhetoric common to earlier histories. Designed for high school and college students and general readers, it will help readers to understand the complexity of German history. Each of ...

Porcelain Folk Doll Germany - HOME Porcelain Folk Doll Germany The Handbook of Doll Repair and Restoration by Mary Westfall, The Handbook of Doll Repair and Restoration was a first when it was published in 1979. It is still a first--in its completeness and detail. This is a responsible book, subscribing to the view of true doll collectors: Do nothing to an antique doll that will compromise the authenticity and reduce its value. Whether a doll is a museum rarity, one of many common antique dolls, or a collectible, Marty Westfall's book will lead you through ...

Government Auction Heavy Equipment - ... B. Meek successfully demonstrate the shift from confrontational union-management relationships toward more effective and positive systems of collaboration. Although the field of organization development (OD) has been well established for many years, little has been written describing how to succeed with OD in unionized settings. The book targets human resource management and industrial relations managers and staff, union officials, professional arbitrators and mediators, government officials, and professors and students involved in the study of organization development. The book begins with a call for changing the social and political barriers existing in unionized work settings and emphasizes the critical need for union-management cooperation in the present context of international competition. The authors discuss the deterioration of U.S. industry in such fields as ...

Germany Culture - HOME Germany Culture The Rise and Fall of the German Democratic Republic by Feiwel Kupferberg, Most public debate on reunited Germany has emphasized economic issues such as the collapse of East German industry, mass unemployment, career difficulties, and differences in wages and living standards. The overwhelming difficulty resulting from reunification, however, is not persisting economic differences but the internal cultural divide between East and West Germans, one based upon different moral values in the two Germanies. The invisible wall that has replaced the previous, highly visible territorial division of the German nation is ...

Germany Fact - HOME Germany Fact Unchained Eagle: Germany After the Wall by Tom Heneghan, At he end of a tumultuous century, Germany's government has moved back to Berlin, the city that symbolizes the nation' s greatest triumphs and defeats. Government, business and society have all been forced to confront challenges and redefine their roles. "Unchained Eagle" examines the strengths and weaknesses of the new Germany that has emerged in the past decade. Including photographs from the Reuters Picture Archive, it shows how Germany has moved ahead aggressively on strategic economic issues, dictating the terms ...

Picture of Germany - HOME Picture of Germany Unchained Eagle: Germany After the Wall by Tom Heneghan, At he end of a tumultuous century, Germany's government has moved back to Berlin, the city that symbolizes the nation' s greatest triumphs and defeats. Government, business and society have all been forced to confront challenges and redefine their roles. "Unchained Eagle" examines the strengths and weaknesses of the new Germany that has emerged in the past decade. Including photographs from the Reuters Picture Archive, it shows how Germany has moved ahead aggressively on strategic economic issues, dictating the ...

University in Germany - HOME University in Germany Captive University: The Sovietization of East German, Czech, and Polish Higher Education, 1945-1956 by John Connelly, This comparative history of the higher education systems in Poland, East Germany, and the Czech lands reveals an unexpected diversity within East European stalinism. With information gleaned from archives in each of these places, John Connelly offers a valuable case study showing how totalitarian states adapt their policies to the contours of the societies they rule.The Communist dictum that universities be purged of "bourgeois elements" was accomplished most fully in East ...

Climate Graph Germany - HOME Climate Graph Germany Exercises in Climatology by John E. Oliver, This invaluable weather "and climate" workbook applies exercises to the material presented in the companion volume, "Climatology: An Atmospheric Science." The book is designed to make complex mathematical, statistical and spatial analytical methods more easily understood by providing essential details of the topic under discussion and straightforward quantitative problems preceded by worked example. All data are supplied to make the exercises self-contained and the volume's "climate rather then meteorologic presentation" enables a wider view of atmospheric sciences than is normally ...

Vacation Package Germany - HOME Vacation Package Germany Spa-Finders Guide to Spa Vacations: At Home and Abroad by Jeffrey Joseph, Join the five million people each year who are making health and fitness vacations today’ s hottest travel trend … Spa-Finders® Guide to Spa Vacations " You’ ll find the widest possible range of spas … as well as unique spa tours and packages available exclusively through Spa-Finders." — Shape magazine As founder of Spa-Finders (the world’ s largest travel service dedicated solely to health and fitness vacations), Jeffrey Joseph has introduced the fitness, pampering, and revitalization services of spas to thousands of health-conscious travelers. His unique approach to fitness-oriented travel is the only one that’ s based on actual guest feedback, and it’ s available here for the first time in book form. The unique Spa-Finders Guide to Spa Vacations provides complete and entertaining descriptions and costs for 120 of the world’ s finest spas, and it offers thousands of dollars in free coupons from top spas and a 5 0iscount on bookings through the Spa- ...

Unification of Germany and Italy - HOME Unification of Germany and Italy Fascist Ideology: Expansionism in Italy and Germany 1922-1945 With an overview of the ideological motivations behind fascist expansionism and their impact on fascist policies, this book explores the two main issues which have dominated the historiographical debates on the nature of fascist expressionism: whether Italy's and Germany's particular expansionist tendencies can be attributed to a set of generic fascist values, or were shaped by the long-term, uniquely national ambitions and developments since unification; whether the pursuit of expansionism was opportunistic or followed a ...

Book Publication Religion Shopping Spirituality - HOME Book Publication Religion Shopping Spirituality Painting Religion in Public: John Singer Sargent's Triumph of Religion at the Boston Public Library by Sally M. Promey, A brilliant painter of society portraits, John Singer Sargent also devoted many years at the height of his career to a project of an entirely different order: an ambitious, multi-media decoration titled "Triumph of Religion (1890-1919) for the Boston Public Library. The library cycle Sargent imagined as his most important work, however, would ultimately remain unfinished, quietly abandoned in the face of religious opposition, one critical ... decoration attracted the attention of multiple audiences and engaged concurrent debates about class, race, art, and religion. Representatives of various religious and cultural backgrounds hailed portions of the cycle as indicative of the strength of their own positions, and reproductions of the images appeared in everything from books and encyclopedias to stained glass and public pageantry. Promey analyzes the conception and production of the cycle, persuasively demonstrating that "Triumph of Religion, far from promoting a narrowly sectarian version of religious practice,represented instead Sargent's public recommendation of the privacy of modern belief. ...

Germany Kiel Music News Reggae - HOME Germany Kiel Music News Reggae The Inextinguishable Symphony: A True Story of Music and Love in Nazi Germany by Martin Goldsmith, "The Holocaust has hovered on the periphery of the American imagination for so many decades now, it’ s hard to believe a book could come along at this point to burn a whole new perspective into our consciousness. But that’ s just what Martin Goldsmith has done with this astonishing work. . . . Goldsmith [writes] with modesty, restraint, and skill . . . masterly."-SAN FRANCISCO CHRONICLE "A fascinating insight into a virtually unknown chapter of ...

Regional Europe Germany - HOME Regional Europe Germany Regions in Europe by PatrickLe Gales, Regions in Europe explores the state of regional politics in an increasingly integrated Europe. It argues that the predicted rise of increased political power at the regional level has failed to materialize and is fraught with paradox. In doing so this study locates regions in relation to European integration, globalization, the nation state, local government, and comparative and national perspectives. Using case studies of the main players in Europe including: Germany, France, the UK, Italy, Spain, the Netherlands and Belgium, the contributors show how and why European regions remain remarkably weak in European governance. Drawing together leading European scholars, Regions in Europe will be essential reading for those interested in European politics, political economy, nations states ...

Game Music Book - HOME Game Music Book The Big Book of Music Games by Debra Olson Pressnall, X Active learning games and board games that teach music fundamentals and more! Young musicians work with games on the music alphabet and basic symbol identifications and progress to reading intervals and rhythms. Includes games on composers and familiar instruments. Foxfire Book of Appalachian Toys and Games by Linda Garland Page, X Part oral history and part rule book, The Foxfire Book of Appalachian Toys and Games is a joyous collection of memories of playing indoor and outdoor games; ...