As we journey through life, we expect major events to affect our lives. They do. But the most valuable lessons sometimes come through smaller and what some might call insignificant snippets....
This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and r...
This collection provides a comprehensive treatment of the German colonial empire and its significance. Leading scholars show not only how the colonies influenced metropolitan life and the char...
This is a lucid and factual exposition thoroughly documented and supported by references to official publications. The introduction by Fraenkel is an exposition of the labor courts in the German ju...
A novel in which the events take place during the period Autumn 1932 – Spring 1933. Frank Hannaford, a young Australian from a sheltered Catholic background, is searching for a deeper vers...
This book offers the reader an introduction to the writings of Hildegard of Bingen, Meister Eckhart, Tauler, Nicholas of Cusa, Paracelsus, Jacob Boehme, Angelus Silesius, Novalis and includes the m...
German Social Democracy and the Rise of Nazism explores the failure of Germany's largest political party to stave off the Nazi threat to the Weimar republic. In 1928 members of the Social De...
German Writers in Soviet Exile, 1933-1945 explores the lives and work of several dozen German Communist writers and cultural functionaries who were given asylum in Stalin's Russia when Hitle...
This is a concise survey of the role that America's largest ethnic group, the German-Americans, has played in American history from the 17th century to the present. The term "German-American" in th...
In Germans to the Front, David Large charts the path from Germany's total demilitarization immediately after World War II to the appearance of the Bundeswehr, the West German army, in 1956. ...
An acknowledged authority on German history and memory, Alon Confino presents in this volume an original critique of the relations between nationhood, memory, and history, applied to the specific c...
This work on the scope of dissent in East Germany integrates the post World War II uprising and the birth of the oppositional forces with the 1980s social change movements. Two new chapters in this...
Using newly available material from both sides of the Iron Curtain, William Glenn Gray explores West Germany's efforts to prevent international acceptance of East Germany as a legitimate state foll...
Over the course of the twentieth century, Germans have venerated and maintained a variety of historical buildings--from medieval fortresses and cathedrals to urban districts and nineteenth-century ...
This newest edition of a core graduate level textbook has added six new chapters to further enrich the ""gerontological imagination,"" and encourage an interdisciplinary approach to the study of...
This is the most complete translation ever attempted of these moral tales, and will be a valuable source text for all scholars and students of medieval literature.
In Gesture and Power Yolanda Covington-Ward examines the everyday embodied practices and performances of the BisiKongo people of the Lower Congo to show how their gestures, dances, and ...
Mediation has been in the top 50 new and emerging careers in the US since 2012. More judges across the country recognize the benefits of mediation to their dockets and the litigants by drastical...
Getting to Innovation is a detailed guide to achieving the critical first step in formulating creative and useful ideas-i.e., asking the right questions that define the challenges facing any organi...