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  • Albert Schweitzer in Thought and Action

    A Life in Parts

    by Steven J. Kraftchick, R. Barry Matlock, Robert Morgan, Christophe Chalamet, Harald Schützeichel, Predrag Cicovacki, Claus Günzler, Ulrich H. J. Körtner, Xutong Qu, Thomas Suermann, Anthony J. Steinhoff, Werner Zager, Nils Ole Oermann, Ward Blanton ...
    Series series Albert Schweitzer Library
    In the 1940s and 1950s, Albert Schweitzer was one of the best-known figures on the world stage. Courted by monarchs, world statesmen, and distinguished figures from the literary, musical, and scientific fields, Schweitzer was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1952, cementing his place as one of the great intellectual leaders of his time. Schweitzer is less well known now but nonetheless a man of ... Read more

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  • Wall Flower

    A Life on the German Border

    by Rita Kuczynski ...
    Translated by Anthony J. Steinhoff ...
    In August 1961, seventeen-year-old Rita Kuczynski was living with her grandmother and studying piano at a conservatory in West Berlin. Caught in East Berlin by the rise of the Berlin Wall while on a summer visit to her parents, she found herself trapped behind the Iron Curtain for the next twenty-eight years.Kuczynski’s fascinating memoir relates her experiences of life in East Germany as a ... Read more

    $23.79 USD

  • The Total Work of Art

    Foundations, Articulations, Inspirations

    Edited by David Imhoof, Margaret Eleanor Menninger, Anthony J. Steinhoff ...
    Series Book 12 - Spektrum: Publications of the German Studies Association
    For two centuries, Gesamtkunstwerk—the ideal of the “total work of art”—has exerted a powerful influence over artistic discourse and practice, spurring new forms of collaboration and provoking debates over the political instrumentalization of art. Despite its popular conflation with the work of Richard Wagner, Gesamtkunstwerk’s lineage and legacies extend well beyond German Romanticism, as this ... Read more

    $23.79 USD

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  • The Invention of the Jewish People

    by Shlomo Sand ...
    Translated by Yael Lotan ...
    A historical tour de force, The Invention of the Jewish People offers a groundbreaking account of Jewish and Israeli history. Exploding the myth that there was a forced Jewish exile in the first century at the hands of the Romans, Israeli historian Shlomo Sand argues that most modern Jews descend from converts, whose native lands were scattered across the Middle East and Eastern Europe.In this ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

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  • The City of God

    Complete in a single file

    by Saint Augustine ...
    Translated by Marcus Dods ...
    According to the editor's preface: "The City of God is the masterpiece of the greatest genius among the Latin Fathers, and the best known and most read of his works, except the Confessions. It embodies the results of thirteen years of intellectual labor and study (from A.D. 413-426). It is a vindication of Christianity against the attacks of the heathen in view of the sacking of the city of Rome ... Read more

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  • The War Against the Jews, 1933–1945

    by Lucy S. Dawidowicz ...
    A history of how anti-Semitism evolved into the Holocaust in Germany: "If any book can tell what Hitlerism was like, this is it" (Alfred Kazin).Lucy Dawidowicz's groundbreaking The War Against the Jews inspired waves of both acclaim and controversy upon its release in 1975. Dawidowicz argues that genocide was, to the Nazis, as central a war goal as conquering Europe, and was made possible by a ... Read more

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  • The Changing Face of Anti-Semitism

    From Ancient Times to the Present Day

    by Walter Laqueur ...
    For thirty years the director of the Wiener Library in London--the leading institute for the study of anti-Semitism--Walter Laqueur here offers both a comprehensive history of anti-Semitism as well as an illuminating look at the newest wave of this phenomenon. Laqueur begins with an invaluable historical account of this pernicious problem, tracing the evolution from a predominantly religious anti ... Read more

    $12.39 USD

  • Precious Objects

    A Story of Diamonds, Family, and a Way of Life

    by Alicia Oltuski ...
    In the middle of New York City lies a neighborhood where all secrets are valuable, all assets are liquid, and all deals are sealed with a blessing rather than a contract. Welcome to the diamond district. Ninety percent of all diamonds that enter America pass through these few blocks, but the inner workings of this mysterious world are known only to the people who inhabit it.In Precious Objects, ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

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  • Was Jesus God?

    by Richard Swinburne ...
    The orderliness of the universe and the existence of human beings already provides some reason for believing that there is a God - as argued in Richard Swinburne's earlier book Is There a God ? Swinburne now claims that it is probable that the main Christian doctrines about the nature of God and his actions in the world are true. In virtue of his omnipotence and perfect goodness, God must be a ... Read more

    $11.39 USD

  • Never Far Apart

    by Kitty Salsberg, Ellen Foster ...
    Series series The Azrieli Series of Holocaust Survivor Memoirs
    Kati and her younger sister, Ilonka, arrived in Canada with painful memories from the Holocaust, which took both of their parents. Their harrowing time alone in the Budapest ghetto was fresh in their minds, as were their fragile hopes to be adopted. But their lives in Toronto were far from what they expected, and full of broken promises. As the sisters navigated their new surroundings, they each ... Read more

    $6.29 USD

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  • The Jewish State

    by Theodor Herzl ...
    Series series Penguin Great Ideas
    'We shall live at last as free men on our own soil, and die peacefully in our own homes'Theodor Herzl's passionate advocacy of the founding of a Jewish state grew out of his conviction that Jews would never be assimilated into the populations in which they lived. Herzl concluded that the only solution for the majority of Jews would be organised emigration to a state of their own.Herzl's political ... Read more

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  • Belief without Borders

    Inside the Minds of the Spiritual but not Religious

    by Linda A. Mercadante ...
    Named A Best Spiritual Book of the Year by Spirituality & Practice The last twenty years have seen a dramatic increase in "nones": people who do not claim any religious affiliation. These "nones" now outnumber even the largest Protestant denominations in America. They are not to be confused with secularists, however, for many of them identify themselves as "spiritual but not religious" (SBNR). The ... Read more

    $44.09 USD