Cultural Region/Germany
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Bowie in Berlin: A New Career in a New Town
$19.95 Read moreDriven to the brink of madness by cocaine, overwork, marital strife, and a paranoid obsession with the occult, Bowie fled Los Angeles in 1975 and ended up in Berlin, the divided city on the frontline
- Author: Seabrook, Thomas Jerome
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: February 01 2008
- ISBN10: 1906002088
- Language: English
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Prayers of a Young Poet
$21.00 Add to cartThis volume marks the first translation of these prayer-poems into English. Originally written in 1899, Rilke wrote them upon returning to Germany from his first trip to Russia. His experience of the … [more below]
- Author: Rilke, Rainer Maria
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 112
- Publish Date: June 01 2016
- ISBN10: 1612616410
- Language: English
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Human, All Too Human: A Book for Free Spirits (Revised Edition)
$21.95 Add to cartThis English translation–the first since 1909–restores Human, All Too Human to its proper central position in the Nietzsche canon. First published in 1878, the book marks the philosophical coming of… [more below]
- Author: Nietzsche, Friedrich
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 275
- Publish Date: December 01 1996
- ISBN10: 0803283687
- Language: English
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Thus Spoke Zarathustra: A Book for All and None
$24.00 Add to cartFriedrich Nietzsche’s most accessible and influential philosophical work, misquoted, misrepresented, brilliantly original and enormously influential, Thus Spoke Zarathustra is translated from the Germ… [more below]
- Series: Modern Library (Hardcover)
- Author: Nietzsche, Friedrich
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: September 19 1995
- ISBN10: 679601759
- Language: English
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Practical Philosophy
$85.00 Add to cartThis is the first English translation of all of Kant’s writings on moral and political philosophy collected in a single volume. No other collection competes with the comprehensiveness of this one. As … [more below]
- Series: Cambridge Edition of the Works of Immanuel Kant
- Author: Kant, Immanuel
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 706
- Publish Date: June 13 1999
- ISBN10: 0521654084
- Language: English
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Why I Am So Wise
$12.00 Add to cartThroughout history, some books have changed the world. They have transformed the way we see ourselves–and each other. They have inspired debate, dissent, war and revolution. They have enlightened, ou… [more below]
- Series: Penguin Great Ideas
- Author: Nietzsche, Friedrich
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 96
- Publish Date: September 06 2005
- ISBN10: 0143036343
- Language: English
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Checkmate in Berlin: The Cold War Showdown That Shaped the Modern World
$24.99 Read moreFrom a master of popular history, the lively, immersive story of the race to seize Berlin in the aftermath of World War II as it’s never been told before
BERLIN’S FATE WAS SEALED AT THE 1945 YALTA CO- Author: Milton, Giles
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: June 07, 2022
- ISBN10: 1250838991
- Language: English
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U-Boats Off the Outer Banks: Shadows in the Moonlight
$23.99 Add to cartFrom January to July 1942, more than seventy-five ships sank to North Carolina’s “Graveyard of the Atlantic” off the coast of the Outer Banks. A Standard oil tanker sank just sixty miles from Cape Hat
- Series: Military
- Author: Bunch, Jim
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: July 10 2017
- ISBN10: 1467137677
- Language: English
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Shadows of Reality: A Catalogue of W.G. Sebald’s Photographic Materials
$59.95 Read moreThe first-ever volume of the photographs of German writer W.G. Sebald, exquisitely designed to shed new light on his creative process, as it chronicles the images and encounters that shaped his writin… [more below]
- Author: Scott, Clive
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 464
- Publish Date: December 12 2023
- ISBN10: 0262548291
- Language: English
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First German Reader: A Beginner’s Dual-Language Book
$12.95 Read moreDesigned expressly for the beginning German language student, here is an outstanding collection of fifty-two short stories, poems, essays, and anecdotes. Each selection has been specially chosen for i… [more below]
- Series: Dual-Language Books
- Author: Steinhauer, Harry
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: December 10 2007
- ISBN10: 0486461793
- Language: English
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Ecce Homo: How One Becomes What One Is–Revised Edition
$15.00 Add to cartIn late 1888, only weeks before his final collapse into madness, Nietzsche (1844-1900) set out to compose his autobiography, and Ecce Homo remains one of the most intriguing yet bizarre examples of th… [more below]
- Series: Penguin Classics
- Author: Nietzsche, Friedrich
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: December 01 1992
- ISBN10: 0140445153
- Language: English
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The Storm of War: A New History of the Second World War
$24.99 Add to cart“Gripping. . . . splendid history. A brilliantly clear and accessible account of the war in all its theaters. Roberts’s prose is unerringly precise and strikingly vivid. It is hard to imagine a better
- Author: Roberts, Andrew
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 800
- Publish Date: May 29 2012
- ISBN10: 0061228605
- Language: English
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Germany – Culture Smart!: The Essential Guide to Customs & Culture
$14.99 Add to cartDon’t just see the sights–get to know the people.
Germany powerhouse of Europe and pillar of the Eurozone feels reassuringly familiar. However, despite superficial appearances, this is a country tha- Series: Culture Smart! The Essential Guide to Customs & Culture
- Author: Culture Smart!
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 200
- Publish Date: March 04 2021
- ISBN10: 1787028844
- Language: English
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Hitler’s American Gamble: Pearl Harbor and Germany’s March to Global War
$23.99 Read moreAn “absorbing” and “visceral” (New York Times) account of the five most crucial days in twentieth-century diplomatic history: from Pearl Harbor to Hitler’s declaration of war on the United States
By e- Author: Simms, Brendan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 528
- Publish Date: April 18 2023
- ISBN10: 1541619102
- Language: English
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Cyrano de Bergerac: An Heroic Comedy in Five Acts
$6.99 Add to cartThis is Edmond Rostand’s immortal play in which chivalry and wit, bravery and love are forever captured in the timeless spirit of romance. Set in Louis XIII’s reign, it is the moving and exciting dram… [more below]
- Series: Bantam Classics
- Author: Rostand, Edmond
- Binding: Mass Market Paperbound
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: November 01 1950
- ISBN10: 0553213601
- Language: English
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A Woman in Berlin: Eight Weeks in the Conquered City: A Diary
$20.99 Read moreA New York Times Book Review Editors’ Choice
For eight weeks in 1945, as Berlin fell to the Russian army, a young woman kept a daily record of life in her apartment building and among its residents. “- Author: Anonymous
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: July 11 2006
- ISBN10: 0312426119
- Language: English
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Patton, Montgomery, Rommel: Masters of War
$18.00 Read moreIn Patton, Montgomery, Rommel, one of Britain’s most accomplished military scholars presents an unprecedented study of the land war in the North African and European theaters, as well as their chief c… [more below]
- Author: Brighton, Terry
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 480
- Publish Date: November 02 2010
- ISBN10: 0307461556
- Language: English
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Rick Steves Snapshot Rothenburg & the Rhine
$14.99 Add to cartWith Rick Steves, Rothenburg and the Rhine are yours to discover! This slim guide excerpted from Rick Steves Germany includes:
- Rick’s firsthand, up-to-date advice on the best sights, restaurants, hote
- Author: Steves, Rick
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: February 21 2023
- ISBN10: 1641715324
- Language: English
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Death of the Wehrmacht: The German Campaigns of 1942
$27.99 Add to cartFor Hitler and the German military, 1942 was a key turning point of World War II, as an overstretched but still lethal Wehrmacht replaced brilliant victories and huge territorial gains with stalemates… [more below]
- Series: Modern War Studies (Paperback)
- Author: Citino, Robert M.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: October 22 2007
- ISBN10: 0700617914
- Language: English
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Faust: The Second Part of the Tragedy
$15.00 Read moreIn this sequel to Faust, Mephistopheles takes Faust on a journey through ancient Greek mythology, conjuring for him the insurpassably beautiful Helen of Troy, as well as the classical gods. Faust fall… [more below]
- Series: Penguin Classics
- Author: Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: June 01 2009
- ISBN10: 0140449027
- Language: English
