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  • Audiobook

    The classic of German literature

    A Summer Novella, Siddhartha, The Metamorphosis, Death in Venice and others

    by Franz Kafka, Thomas Mann, Rainer Maria Rilke, Hermann Hesse ...
    Narrated by Mark Bowen, Shawna Wolf, Peter Coates ...

    Unabridged

    11 hours 14 min

    German literature comprises those literary texts written in the German language. This includes literature written in Germany, Austria, the German parts of Switzerland and Belgium, Liechtenstein, Luxembourg, South Tyrol in Italy and to a lesser extent works of the German diaspora.Contents:Thomas MannDeath in VeniceHermann HesseSiddharthaFranz KafkaThe MetamorphosisStefan ZweigA Summer NovellaRainer ... Read more

    $9.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Polymath

    A Cultural History from Leonardo da Vinci to Susan Sontag

    by Peter Burke ...
    Series series Vices and Virtues
    From Leonardo Da Vinci to Oliver Sacks: the first history of the western polymath, from the Renaissance to the present"An absorbing group portrait and intellectual history."— Kirkus Reviews"An admirable mixture of industry and erudition."—Robert Wilson, Wall Street JournalFrom Leonardo Da Vinci to John Dee and Comenius, from George Eliot to Oliver Sacks and Susan Sontag, polymaths hav... ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

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  • The French Historical Revolution

    The Annales School 1929 - 2014

    by Peter Burke ...
    This book provides a critical history of the movement associated with the journal Annales, from its foundation in 1929 to the present. This movement has been the single most important force in the development of what is sometimes called ‘the new history’.Renowned cultural historian, Peter Burke, distinguishes between four main generations in the development of the Annales School. The first ... Read more

    $27.50 USD

  • Eyewitnessing

    The Uses of Images as Historical Evidence

    by Peter Burke ...
    Series series
    Eyewitnessing evaluates the place of images among other kinds of historical evidence. By reviewing the many varieties of images by region, period and medium, and looking at the pragmatic uses of images (e.g. the Bayeux Tapestry, an engraving of a printing press, a reconstruction of a building), Peter Burke sheds light on our assumption that these practical uses are ‘reflections’ of specific ... Read more

    $11.89 USD

  • Knowledge, Culture and Society

    by Peter Burke ...
    How is knowledge measured? How long does it take us to reflect on something and how long to express our thoughts? Such is the dilemma that the human, social and economic sciences go through, since they face the challenge of understanding complex processes when confronting the urgency of standards, measurements and forms of qualitative and quantitative evaluation that respond to notions of utility, ... Read more

    $3.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Year-Round Indoor Salad Gardening

    How to Grow Nutrient-Dense, Soil-Sprouted Greens in Less Than 10 days

    by Peter Burke ...
    The Low-Tech, No-Grow-Lights Approach to Abundant HarvestYear-Round Indoor Salad Gardening offers good news: with nothing more than a cupboard and a windowsill, you can grow all the fresh salad greens you need for the winter months (or throughout the entire year) with no lights, no pumps, and no greenhouse.Longtime gardener Peter Burke was tired of the growing season ending with the first frost, ... Read more

    $21.99 USD

  • Identity Theory

    Revised and Expanded

    by Peter J. Burke, Jan E. Stets ...
    The concept of identity has become widespread within the social and behavioral sciences, cutting across disciplines from psychiatry and psychology to political science and sociology. Introduced more than fifty years ago, identity theory is a social psychological theory that attempts to understand people's identities, their sources in interaction and society, their processes of operation, and their ... Read more

    $22.79 USD

  • What is the History of Knowledge?

    by Peter Burke ...
    Series series What is History?
    What is the history of knowledge? This engaging and accessible introduction explains what is distinctive about the new field of the history of knowledge (or, as some scholars say, ‘knowledges in the plural’) and how it differs from the history of science, intellectual history, the sociology of knowledge or from cultural history. Leading cultural historian, Peter Burke, draws upon examples of this ... Read more

    $18.00 USD

  • What is Cultural History?

    by Peter Burke ...
    Series series What is History?
    What is Cultural History? has established itself as an essential guide to what cultural historians do and how they do it. Now fully updated in its third edition, leading historian Peter Burke offers afresh his accessible account of the past, present and future of cultural history, as it has been practised not only in the English-speaking world, but also in Continental Europe, Asia, South America ... Read more

    $16.00 USD

  • Popular Culture in Early Modern Europe

    by Peter Burke ...
    Cultural history has in the last few decades come to the fore of historical research into early modern Europe. Due in no small part to Peter Burke’s pioneering work, the tools of the cultural historian are now routinely applied to every aspect of history, transforming our understanding of the past.First published in 1978, this study examines the broad sweep of pre-industrial Europe's popular ... Read more

    $60.99 USD

  • The Italian Renaissance

    Culture and Society in Italy

    by Peter Burke ...
    In this brilliant and widely acclaimed work, Peter Burke presents a social and cultural history of the Italian Renaissance. He discusses the social and political institutions which existed in Italy during the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries and analyses the ways of thinking and seeing which characterized this period of extraordinary artistic creativity. Developing a distinctive sociological ... Read more

    $29.95 USD

  • Audiobook

    Jake Muller Adventures, The: Unidentified

    An Original, Action-Packed Audio Drama Series

    by Darby Kern ...
    Narrated by Darby Kern, Dugan Sherbondy, Sky Ziskin, Elisa Hatton, Josh Bultman, Christian Gill, Randy Streu, Phil Lollar, Steve Schleicher, Aimee Lilly0, Chris Fabry1, Charles Adams2, Jeremy Anderson3, Peter Berwick4, Aaron Touchet5, John K. Burke6, David Cwi7, Marquecia Jordan8, Nick Mataragas9, Jackie Saland0, Micah Touchet1, Sean Eric Wesslund2 ...
    Series Audiobook 1 - The Jake Muller Adventures

    Unabridged

    1 hour 37 min

    UFOs? Alien Abductions? Men in Black?Nothing in Jake Muller’s experience has prepared him for these kinds of things. But then he’s never been faced with a challenge that he didn’t take head-on.Finding a teenaged girl over a thousand miles from where she is supposed to be is just the beginning. Going toe to toe with a global cabal intent on ushering a new world order might just be the end. ... Read more

    $19.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus