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Author
Publisher
A.A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2005
Language
English
Description
A sanitorium in the Swiss Alps reflects the societal ills of pre-twentieth-century Europe, and a young marine engineer rises from his life of anonymity to become a pivotal character in a story about how a human's environment affects self identity.
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Legendary filmmaker and celebrated author Werner Herzog tells in his inimitable voice the story of his epic artistic career in a long-awaited memoir that is as inventive and daring as anything he has done before. Werner Herzog was born in September 1942 in Munich, Germany, at a turning point in the Second World War. Soon Germany would be defeated and a new world would have to be made out the rubble and horrors of the war. Fleeing the Allied bombing...
Author
Publisher
Recorded Books, Inc
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
Sophia Alexander, the beautiful daughter of a famous surgeon in Berlin, has had to grow up faster than most young women. When her mother falls ill, Sophia must take charge of her younger sister, Theresa, and look after her father and the household, while also volunteering at his hospital after school. Meanwhile, Hitler's rise to power and the violence in her very own town have Sophia concerned, but only her mother is willing to share her fears openly....
Author
Language
English
Description
"Rachel Maddow traces the fight to preserve American democracy back to World War II, when a handful of committed public servants and brave private citizens thwarted far-right plotters trying to steer our nation toward an alliance with the Nazis. Inspired by her research for the hit podcast Ultra, Rachel Maddow charts the rise of a wild American strain of authoritarianism that has been alive on the far-right edge of our politics for the better part...
Author
Publisher
Taurus Ediciones
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
Español
Description
La aventura filosófica de un grupo de jóvenes rebeldes, el Círculo de Jena, que dio lugar al Romanticismo y a nuestra comprensión moderna de la libertad. ¿Cuándo empezamos a exigir el derecho a decidir sobre nuestras vidas? ¿En qué momento nos volvimos tan egocéntricos como lo somos hoy? ¿Cuándo nos planteamos por primera vez la pregunta «¿Cómo puedo ser libre?». Todo comenzó en una tranquila ciudad universitaria de Alemania en la...
7) The fox
Publisher
Greenwich Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
Deutsch
Description
At the dawn of World War II, a young motorcycle courier in the Austrian army encounters a wounded fox cub and takes it with him to occupied France. The soldier and the fox develop an unlikely bond. Based on the true story of Franz Streitberger, director Adrian Goiginger's great-grandfather.
Author
Publisher
Encounter Books
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
"The founding principles of the American Revolution-that all individuals have unalienable natural rights to life, liberty, and the fruits of their labor, and that governments should exist only to protect these rights-were a singularity in human history. The nation's failure to secure the slaves' equal rights to self-ownership led to a civil war and the constitutional recognition of this vital principle. And yet, scarcely four decades later, social...
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