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Fire

Fire

Sebastian Junger

The millions of readers and viewers of The Perfect Storm have long awaited this new work of non-fiction by Sebastian Junger. This time, we step off the deck of the Andrea Gail into an inferno.
The Glass Bees

The Glass Bees

Ernst Jünger

When The Glass Bees was first published in 1960, junger's German critics dismissed the book's vision as lacking contemporary relevance. Today, however, the future it imagines seems very much like the present we now know.
A Dubious Past: Ernst Jünger and the Politics of Literature ...

A Dubious Past: Ernst Jünger and the Politics of Literature ...

Elliot Y. Neaman

A Dubious Past examines from a new perspective the legacy of Ernst Jünger (1895-1998), one of the most fascinating figures in twentieth-century German intellectual life.
Jahre der Ungewissheit: Emigrationspläne deutscher Juden ...

Jahre der Ungewissheit: Emigrationspläne deutscher Juden ...

David Jünger

Für den unschätzbaren emotionalen Beistand danke ich Katrin Antweiler, Heiko Beyer, Pina Bock, Ulrike Breitsprecher, Tom Erdmann, Markus Flohr, Felix Hartung, Ewa Jarosz, Christoph Kasten, Doris Liebscher, David Uhlmann, Sarah  ...
Before Auschwitz

Before Auschwitz

Kim Wünschmann

I am also extremely thankful to Knut Bergbauer, David Jünger, Sven Langhammer, and Julia Pietsch, who have kindly made the results of their own research available to me and have pointed me toward precious sources. Heartfelt thanks go to ...
The Devil's Captain: Ernst Jünger in Nazi Paris, 1941-1944

The Devil's Captain: Ernst Jünger in Nazi Paris, 1941-1944

Allan Mitchell

Author of Nazi Paris, a Choice Academic Book of the Year, Allan Mitchell has researched a companion volume concerning the acclaimed and controversial German author Ernst Jünger who, if not the greatest German writer of the twentieth ...
Livres de France

Livres de France

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... 26 F La biographe Fabienne Lourque- seau se lance sur les traces de Charles -David Junger. Est-ce un explorateur, un archéologue ou un illuminé qui cherche Te peuple légendaire des Guerillans? Un récit peuplé de rebondissements, ...
Beschreibungsversuche der Judenfeindschaft: Zur Geschichte ...

Beschreibungsversuche der Judenfeindschaft: Zur Geschichte ...

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Trotz der religiösen Interpretation, so David Jünger, war Breuers Analyse „ erstaunlich modern“.46 Die Debatten um jüdisches Selbstverständnis fanden im diskursiven Kontext der zeitgenössischen Kontroversen und ...
Saul (1739), An Oratorio: For SSATTTTTBBB Solo, SATB ...

Saul (1739), An Oratorio: For SSATTTTTBBB Solo, SATB ...

George Frideric Handel

Heil dir, David, junger Held, Der des Feindes Haupt gefällt ! Tausend schlug, o Saul, dein Schwert, Heil dir, der uns Sieg gewährt ! II. David warf zehn tausend hin, Zehn tausend Lieder preisen ihn. Saúl. Ha, welche Schmach! — sank ich so tief ...
L'arche

L'arche

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Demi-juif, Charles-David Junger, au cours d'une expédition, retrouve les derniers descendants des Gueril- lans qui détiennent un Livre secret, tellement secret même qu'il se trouve enfoui dans les sables de l'oasis de Takla-Kan.
Early Modern Culture and Haskalah

Early Modern Culture and Haskalah

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Im Team der Redaktion haben Elisabeth Gallas, Mirjam Thulin, Lutz Fiedler, David Jünger, Stephan Stach und Tom Wiese-Tomys mit großem Engagement zur redaktionellen Vereinheitlichung der Texte beigetragen – ihnen allen gilt in ...
A World Made of Blood:

A World Made of Blood:

Sebastian Junger

This powerful short story, at once modern and timeless, combines the best elements of classic war literature and psychological horror.
WAR

WAR

Sebastian Junger

Through the experiences of these young men at war, he shows what it means to fight, to serve, and to face down mortal danger on a daily basis.
Ernst Jünger and Germany: Into the Abyss, 1914-1945

Ernst Jünger and Germany: Into the Abyss, 1914-1945

Thomas R. Nevin

His writings, as this book indicates, put him at an unimpeachable remove from the Nazis, but neo-Nazi rightists in Germany have rushed to embrace him.
Aladdin's Problem

Aladdin's Problem

Ernst Jünger

Friedrich Baroh, an East German soldier, defects to the West, where he obtains a college degree and decides to build Terrestra, an international, nondenominational necropolis, in a remote area of Turkey
Tribe: On Homecoming and Belonging

Tribe: On Homecoming and Belonging

Sebastian Junger

From the author of THE PERFECT STORM and WAR comes a book about why men miss war, why Londoners missed the Blitz, and what we can all learn from American Indian captives who refused to go home.
Eumeswil

Eumeswil

Ernst Jünger

A political novel set in a futuristic state, run by a tyrant and narrated by the tyrant's historian. The novel's originality lies in its willingness to question such generally accepted ideas as democracy and mass education.
Storm of Steel

Storm of Steel

Ernst Junger

They seemed to sprout from the fire-harrowed soil like some iron harvest ...' Storm of Steel is one of the greatest works to emerge from the catastrophe of the First World War.
A Death in Belmont

A Death in Belmont

Sebastian Junger

A compelling portrait of 1960s America that takes as its starting point the brutal events of 11 March 1963, the day on which the lives of three complete strangers – a black handyman, an Italian-American carpenter and a second-generation ...
The Perfect Storm: A True Story of Men Against the Sea

The Perfect Storm: A True Story of Men Against the Sea

Sebastian Junger

The worst storm in history seen from the wheelhouse of a doomed fishing trawler; a mesmerisingly vivid account of a natural hell from a perspective that offers no escape.
The New Age of Adventure: Ten Years of Great Writing

The New Age of Adventure: Ten Years of Great Writing

Sebastian Junger

A celebration of the award-winning magazine's tenth anniversary collects top-selected travel stories from the past decade, from a piece on the new high-speed Tibetan railway to a visit to an Indian village where farmers share a tense ...
Calkins family in America

Calkins family in America

Kenneth Wayne Calkins

... 355 Darrel Earl: 277 Darrel I Lorraine: 306 Darwin: 369 Darwin J.: 294 Daryl Lewis: 399 David: 120 David: 26 David: 7, ... 352 David Farrington: 226 David Hiram: 225 David Hugh Atkins: 146 David Ingalls: 246 David Ingalls: 246,345 David ...
Anna Karenina (English German bilingual Edition ...

Anna Karenina (English German bilingual Edition ...

Leo Tolstoy

«At the top, 12 and 13,» the porter answered Levin's inquiry. ... der Zwischenwand befindliche Tür, die gleichfalls offenstand, ins Zimmer und sah, daß der Redende ein junger Mann mit gewaltigem Haarschopfe, in einer Jacke ohne Ärmel war.
Gemeinsame Verantwortung und moralische Pflicht: ...

Gemeinsame Verantwortung und moralische Pflicht: ...

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Philomena Franz steht kerzengerade im hochgeschlossenen Pelzmantel neben ihrem Auto. Eine elegante Dame, der man ihre 84 Jahre nicht ansieht, sie wirkt fünfzehn, vielleicht zwanzig Jahre jünger. Die Wolken hängen tief am Himmel, die ...
Guidelines for Subject Access in National Bibliographies

Guidelines for Subject Access in National Bibliographies

IFLA Working Group on Guidelines for Subject Access by National Bibliographic Agencies

Many thanks to all colleagues who contributed to the success of this work, in particular to Marie Balíková, Pino Buizza, Charlene Chou, Ulrike Junger, Dorothy McGarry, Sirje Nilbe, Sandra K. Roe, Magdalena Svanberg, Barbara Tillett, and ...
The Law of Higher Education, 2 Volumes

The Law of Higher Education, 2 Volumes

William A. Kaplin

Essex Agricultural & Technical Institute, 322–323 Jung v. Association ofAmerican Medical Colleges (300 F. Supp. 2d 119), 1373 Jung v. Association ofAmerican Medical Colleges (339 F. Supp. 2d 26), 1373 Junger v. Daly, 1394 J. Weingarten,  ...
It Came from the 80s!: Interviews with 124 Cult Filmmakers

It Came from the 80s!: Interviews with 124 Cult Filmmakers

Francesco Borseti

Genre: Fantasy/Comedy; Director: David Oliver Pfeil as “David Oliver”; Writers: David Oliver Pfeil as “David Oliver” (Screenplay) and Phil Groves (Screenplay “ Primal Urge”); Cinematographer: David Oliver Pfeil as “David Oliver”; Editor: Robert ...

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