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Cool Magic Tricks: It's Easier Than You Think!Have you ever watched a magician on TV and thought, "I wish I could do that"? Now you can!Cool Magic Tricks is a complete beginner's e-book that teaches you 17 incredible magic tricks you can easily perform with everyday items from around your home. Perfect for children and adults alike!What's Inside?The Floating OrangeAnti Gravity RingVanishing ... Read more

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One of the “Best Books of the Year”: Guardian • Financial Times • Times Higher EducationA major collection of essays that questions whether contemporary capitalism will end with a bang or a whimper—from a leading political economist and the author of Buying Time.After years of ill health, capitalism is now in a critical condition. Growth has given way to stagnation; inequality is leading to ... Read more

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The Cusanus Game

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Biologist Domenica Ligrina fears her planet is dying. She might be right.An atomic disaster near the French-German border has contaminated Northern Europe with radioactivity. Economic and political calamities are destroying the whole planet. Human DNA is mutating, plant species are going extinct, and scientists are feverishly working on possible solutions. It becomes increasingly apparent that the ... Read more

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Biologist Domenica Ligrina fears her planet is dying. She might be right.An atomic disaster near the French-German border has contaminated Northern Europe with radioactivity. Economic and political calamities are destroying the whole planet. Human DNA is mutating, plant species are going extinct, and scientists are feverishly working on possible solutions. It becomes increasingly apparent that the
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The Culture of Defeat

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by Wolfgang Schivelbusch ...

A fascinating look at history's losers—the myths they create to cope with defeat and the steps they take never to be vanquished again.History may be written by the victors, Wolfgang Schivelbusch argues in his brilliant and provocative book, but the losers often have the final word. Focusing on three seminal cases of modern warfare—the South after the Civil War, France in the wake of the Franco ... Read more

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A fascinating look at history's losers—the myths they create to cope with defeat and the steps they take never to be vanquished again.History may be written by the victors, Wolfgang Schivelbusch argues in his brilliant and provocative book, but the losers often have the final word. Focusing on three seminal cases of modern warfare—the South after the Civil War, France in the wake of the Franco
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Old Rendering Plant

by Wolfgang Hilbig ...

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What falsehoods do we believe as children? And what happens when we realize they are lies—possibly heinous ones? In Old Rendering Plant Wolfgang Hilbig turns his febrile, hypnotic prose to the intersection of identity, language, and history’s darkest chapters, immersing readers in the odors and oozings of a butchery that has for years dumped biological waste into a river. It starts when a young ... Read more

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The Hothouse

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On the anniversary of Wolfgang Koeppen’s 120th year, the two remaining works in his postwar trilogy in Michael Hofmann’s spectacular translationThe Hothouse traces the tragic final two days in the life of a minor German politician, Keetenheuve, a man disillusioned by the corruption of his country after World War II. Following his self-imposed exile during the war, Keetenheuve returns to the ... Read more

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Taking Back Control?

States and State Systems After Globalism

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“This maverick thinker is the Karl Marx of our time…In recent decades, Mr. Streeck has described the complaints of populist movements with unequaled power. That is because he has a convincing theory of what has gone wrong in the complex gearworks of American-driven globalization, and he has been able to lay it out with clarity.”—Christopher Caldwell, New York TimesTaking Back Control? examines the ... Read more

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Why We Took the Car

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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 ...

Translated by Claire Krojzl ...

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. ... Read more

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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.
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Pigeons on the Grass

by Wolfgang Koeppen, Michael Hofmann ...

Wolfgang Koeppen’s postwar masterpiece in a luminous new translation by the poet Michael HofmannPigeons 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. ... Read more

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The Vertical Ascent

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What distinguishes this book from other contemporary treatises touching upon cosmology is its conception of the tripartite cosmos.This conception proves to be crucial to resolving three of the most baffling questions of contemporary science, beginning with the measurement problem of quantum theory. What is perhaps most astonishing of all, however, is the fact that this treatise is comprehensible ... Read more

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History As They Saw It

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