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Siegfried Kracauer: An Introduction

Siegfried Kracauer: An Introduction

Gertrud Koch

This book was long-awaited in Germany, as well as widely and well reviewed.
Ed Koch on Everything: Movies, Politics, Personalities, Food ...

Ed Koch on Everything: Movies, Politics, Personalities, Food ...

Ed Koch

For many, Ed Koch represents the typical New Yorker - brash, intelligent, opinionated, and anxious to lecture, cajole, and kibbitz on the widest variety of subjects. This book represents the best of Koch's writing since he left office.
Proceedings and Addresses

Proceedings and Addresses

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Felix Lang híark (X) Koch John (X) Lang Jacob (X) Koch Henry (X) Lang Hans Koch * Jerg Hans Pfister Michel Sautter Johanis Pfister h'íartin (C) Koch Henry (X ) Ortley Peter Thomas Hans Gassmann Johannes Thomas Jacob (O) Bantz Burgat ...
Carl Theodor Dreyer's Gertrud: the moving word

Carl Theodor Dreyer's Gertrud: the moving word

James Schamus

This study follows a trail of references and allusions to reveal the richness and depth of Carl Theodor Dreyer's controversial 1964 film, "Gertrud" - and the excitement that can accompany cinema studies when it opens itself up to other ...
The Science of Success: How Market-Based Management Built ...

The Science of Success: How Market-Based Management Built ...

Charles G. Koch

Let this book show you how to apply the same management philosophy that has served Koch Industries so effectively. MBM will benefit you, your company, your customers and your employees.
In which I argue that consciousness is a fundamental ...

In which I argue that consciousness is a fundamental ...

Christof Koch

How can anything physical give rise to nonphysical, subjective, conscious states? Christof Koch has devoted much of his career to bridging the seemingly unbridgeable gap between the physics of the brain and phenomenal experience.
Murder on Broadway

Murder on Broadway

Ed Koch

When Conor Matthews, the star of The Last Laugh, is murdered during the tenth anniversary performance of Broadway's longest running musical, mayor-turned-sleuth Ed Koch sets out to find the killer before he or she can make an encore ...
The Medici Conspiracy: The Illicit Journey of Looted ...

The Medici Conspiracy: The Illicit Journey of Looted ...

Peter Watson

Koch replied that he didn't know, and that the information about the object being on the New York market in that year had actually been added to the catalog manuscript by Karol Wight of the Getty, who edited the manuscript. According to Koch ...
History News

History News

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John Bruce Robertson Rutgers U niversity, Newark Branch Kansas Folklore. Edited by S. f. Sackjstt and William E. Koch. (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1961, 253 pp., $5.00) The achievement in this volume of editors Sackett and Koch ...
Dark Money: how a secretive group of billionaires is trying ...

Dark Money: how a secretive group of billionaires is trying ...

Jane Mayer

Fred Koch's response was more spanking. Clayton Coppin, a former associate professor and research historian based at George Mason University, was one of the rare outsiders to the Koch family with firsthand knowledge of its inner workings.
Citizen Koch: An Autobiography

Citizen Koch: An Autobiography

Ed Koch

The former mayor of New York City describes his rise from the depths of the Depression, his World War II experiences, and his tenure as mayor, and offers candid insights into politics, the problems facing New York, and personalities he has ...
Consciousness: Confessions of a Romantic Reductionist

Consciousness: Confessions of a Romantic Reductionist

Christof Koch

This engaging book -- part scientific overview, part memoir, part futurist speculation -- describes Koch's search for an empirical explanation for consciousness.
Ed Koch and the Rebuilding of New York City

Ed Koch and the Rebuilding of New York City

Jonathan Soffer

The first book to recast Koch's legacy through personal and mayoral papers, authorized interviews, and oral histories, this volume plots a history of New York City through two rarely studied yet crucial decades: the bankruptcy of the 1970s ...
Murder at City Hall

Murder at City Hall

Ed Koch

Ed Koch, mayor of New York City, turns sleuth when the body of a hated tycoon suddenly appears in the Wedding Chapel of City Hall, and the mayor, his associates, and his friends all become suspects in the crime. Reprint.
Stargazer: The Life, World and Films of Andy Warhol

Stargazer: The Life, World and Films of Andy Warhol

Stephen Koch

In this must-read volume, Stephen Koch provides unprecedented detail on Warhol’s life and work, giving particular attention to a medium that found Andy at his wildest: film.
The Middle East Under Rome

The Middle East Under Rome

Maurice Sartre

63; for Gadara, Guntram Koch, "Ein attischer Meleagersarkophag aus Arethousa in Syrien," Damaszener Mitteilungen (hereafter cited as DaM) 1 (1983): 147, n. 89; for Bostra, Sartre-Fauriat, Tombeaux, vol. 1, pp. 222-225. 17. Guntram Koch ...
Bewusstsein: Bekenntnisse eines Hirnforschers

Bewusstsein: Bekenntnisse eines Hirnforschers

Christof Koch

Und was in den „Gehirnen“ von Computern? Können diese jemals ein Bewusstsein erlangen? Christof Koch geht in seinem sehr persönlichen, autobiographisch geprägten Buch auf all diese Fragen ein.
The Death of the American Death Penalty: States Still ...

The Death of the American Death Penalty: States Still ...

Larry Wayne Koch

14 Larry W. Koch and John F. Galliher, “Michigan's Continuing Abolition of the Death Penalty and the Conceptual Components of Symbolic Legislation,” Social and Legal Studies 2 (1993): 323–46. 15 Galliher and Basilick, “Utah's Liberal Drug ...
The J. Paul Getty Museum Journal: Volume 20, 1992

The J. Paul Getty Museum Journal: Volume 20, 1992

The J. Paul Getty Museum

Paul Getty Museum (Heidemarie Koch) 13:27—32 A Set of Archaic Greekjewelry (Elizabeth Trimble Buckley) 1:27—32 ... in Malibu (Guntram Koch) 8:129 —40 ' épitaphe d'Hélene (jean-Paul Boucher) 10:121—22 Etruscan Inscriptions at the].
Roman Funerary Sculpture: Catalogue of the Collections

Roman Funerary Sculpture: Catalogue of the Collections

Guntram Koch

Catalogue of the Collections Guntram Koch, Karol Wight. © 1988 The]. Paul Getty Museum 17985 Pacific Coast Highway Malibu, California 90265 Mailing address: PO. Box 2112 Santa Monica, California 90406 Christopher Hudson, Head of ...
Louis Jordan: Son of Arkansas, Father of R&B

Louis Jordan: Son of Arkansas, Father of R&B

Stephen Koch

Known as the "King of the Jukeboxes," he and his combo played a hybrid of jazz, swing, blues and comedy music during the big band era that became the start of R&B. In a stunning narrative portrait of Louis Jordan, author Stephen Koch ...

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