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The Long Emancipation: The Demise of Slavery in the United ...

The Long Emancipation: The Demise of Slavery in the United ...

Ira Berlin

Ira Berlin offers a framework for understanding slavery’s demise in the United States.
Self-taught: African American Education in Slavery and ...

Self-taught: African American Education in Slavery and ...

Heather Andrea Williams

Self-Taught is a work of major significance.'' IRA BERLIN University of Maryland.
The IRA on Film and Television: A History

The IRA on Film and Television: A History

Mark Connelly

This work analyzes celluloid depictions of the IRA from the 1916 Easter Rising to the peace process of the 1990s.
Isaiah Berlin and the Enlightenment

Isaiah Berlin and the Enlightenment

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There were studies of Vico—by Joseph Mali and Cecilia Miller—which derived to a greater or lesser extent from Berlin's, while Mark Lilla framed his interpretation as a response to Berlin;13 but there was no distinctively Berlinian line of Vico ...
Berlin

Berlin

Norbert Schürer

Norbert Schurer's cultural guide explores the juxtaposition of Berlin's past and present in history, architecture, literature, art, entertainment and religion, and offers an insider account that provides contexts to make sense of Berlin's ...
The Future of Beauty in Theatre, Literature and the Arts

The Future of Beauty in Theatre, Literature and the Arts

Daniel Meyer-Dinkgrafe

From Nana's deathbed, the shouts of soldiers outside her window chanting “To Berlin! To Berlin! To Berlin!” are in fact the voices of Jean and Maurice, and their comrades marching off to war. With Nana's last labored breath, the great ...
The Butchers of Berlin

The Butchers of Berlin

Chris Petit

‘Conjuring a wartime Berlin where atrocities get lost against a ground of escalating Holocaust and crumbling rationales, Chris Petit’s nerve-wracking S.S. procedural nurses a dread that penetrates right to the marrow' Alan Moore Berlin ...
The Boys From Brazil: Introduction by Chelsea Cain

The Boys From Brazil: Introduction by Chelsea Cain

Ira Levin

In this classic thriller, Ira Levin imagines Dr Josef Mengele's nightmarish plot to restore the Third Reich.
Berlin Since the Wall's End: Shaping Society and Memory in ...

Berlin Since the Wall's End: Shaping Society and Memory in ...

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See Günter Morsch and Astrid Ley, eds., Sachsenhausen Concentration Camp, 19361945: Events and Developments (Berlin, 2008). THE PRESENTATION OF HISTORY IN BERLIN'S ARMORY, 1987-2006: FROM MUSEUM Astrid Ley 117.
The IRA

The IRA

Tim Pat Coogan

A comprehensive history of the Irish Republican Army. Examines the IRA's origins, its foreign links, bombing campaigns, hunger strikes and sectarian violence, and its role in attempts to bring peace to Northern Ireland.
Outpost Berlin: Cold War 1961–1964

Outpost Berlin: Cold War 1961–1964

Harold Schwartz

Now, crossing the border is a dangerous endeavor. But Wegner is far from the only man who seeks to escape. Outpost Berlin chronicles the tales of both successful and failed escape attempts over the Berlin Wall since its erection in 1961.
Son Of Rosemary

Son Of Rosemary

Ira Levin

Ira Levin returns to the horror of his 1967 groundbreaking novel Rosemary’s Baby with this sequel set at the dawn of the new millennium.
Rawhide Ranger, Ira Aten: Enforcing Law on the Texas Frontier

Rawhide Ranger, Ira Aten: Enforcing Law on the Texas Frontier

Bob Alexander

Ira Aten was the epitome of a frontier lawman.
The New Kings of Nonfiction

The New Kings of Nonfiction

Ira Glass

An anthology of the best new masters of nonfiction storytelling, personally chosen and introduced by Ira Glass, the producer and host of the award-winning public radio program This American Life.
This Perfect Day: Introduction by Jonathan Trigell

This Perfect Day: Introduction by Jonathan Trigell

Ira Levin

A cross between Brave New World and Doctor Who.’ Look Magazine Considered one of the greatest dystopian thrillers ever written, Ira Levin’s terrifying glimpse into the future continues to fascinate readers forty years after its initial ...
Quiet Hero: The Ira Hayes Story

Quiet Hero: The Ira Hayes Story

S. D. Nelson

A biography of Ira Hayes, a Pima Indian who was one of the six soldiers to raise the United States flag on Iwo Jima during World War II, an event immortalized by Joe Rosenthal’s Pulitzer Prize-winning photograph.
Son of Rosemary

Son of Rosemary

Ira Levin

The sequel to the New York Times bestseller Rosemary’s Baby—a thrilling cautionary tale of the troubling forces that war within each of us The modern master of suspense Ira Levin returns to the horror of his 1967 groundbreaking novel ...
The Long War: The IRA and Sinn Féin

The Long War: The IRA and Sinn Féin

Brendan O'Brien

This study provides a detailed, accurate, objective and lively account of the modern IRA and Sinn Fein movements from the first stirrings of the contemporary armed struggle through to the Good Friday Agreement and after."
Inside the IRA: Dissident Republicans and the War for ...

Inside the IRA: Dissident Republicans and the War for ...

Andrew Sanders

, Andrew Sanders explains how and why the transition from one IRA to several IRAs occurred, analysing all the dissident factions that have emerged since the outbreak of the Northern Ireland troubles.
The Activist Director: Lessons from the Boardroom and the ...

The Activist Director: Lessons from the Boardroom and the ...

Ira Millstein

In The Activist Director, attorney Ira M. Millstein looks back at fifty years of counseling companies, nonprofits, and governments to actively govern their corporations and constituencies.
Ernie O'Malley : IRA Intellectual: IRA Intellectual

Ernie O'Malley : IRA Intellectual: IRA Intellectual

Richard English

Ernie O'Malley (1897-1957) was one of the most talented and colourful of modern Irish republicans.
Desolation and Enlightenment: Political Knowledge After ...

Desolation and Enlightenment: Political Knowledge After ...

Ira Katznelson

In this major intellectual history, Ira Katznelson examines the works of Hannah Arendt, Robert Dahl, Richard Hofstadter, Harold Lasswell, Charles Lindblom, Karl Polanyi, and David Truman, detailing their engagement with the larger project ...
Killing Moonshine Mullins

Killing Moonshine Mullins

Oakley Dean Baldwin

This story explores my mother’s first cousin three times removed, Ira “Bad Ira” Mullins and the Pound Gap Massacre. This story was handed down to my mother who enlightened me, as I have done with my children.
Family Law in America

Family Law in America

Sanford N. Katz

7 Professor Ira Mark Ellman has made this point in The Theory ofAlimony, 77 Cal. L. Rev. 1, 10–11 (1989). See also Ira Mark Ellman & Sharon Lohr, Marriage as Contract, Opportunistic Violence, and Other Bad ArgumentsforFaultDivorce, 1997  ...
Grund- und Ersatzversorgung in der Insolvenz des Kunden: das ...

Grund- und Ersatzversorgung in der Insolvenz des Kunden: das ...

Paul Barchewitz

Heike Schroll, Spurensicherung. Die Bestände des Stadtarchivs Berlin und ihr Schicksal durch den Zweiten Weltkrieg (= Schriftenreihe des Landesarchivs Berlin, Bd. 5), Berlin 2000. Wolfgang Schößler (Bearb.), Regesten der Urkunden und ...
The Gershwin Years: George And Ira

The Gershwin Years: George And Ira

Edward Jablonski

Both the definitive biography of the Gershwin brothers and a lavishly illustrated chronicle of the American era their music and lyrics embodied, The Gershwin Years celebrates the musical achievements of George (1898–1937) and Ira ...
The Complete Guide to IRAs and IRA Investing: ...

The Complete Guide to IRAs and IRA Investing: ...

Martha Maeda

The Complete Guide to IRAs and IRA Investing combines essentials, insight, and insider secrets to help you secure financial victory after retirement.
Springboard To Berlin

Springboard To Berlin

John Parris

This could only be done by the collaboration of several of those who were there. Springboard to Berlin is the work of four correspondents of the United Press.
Berlin Alexanderplatz: The Story of Franz Biberkopf

Berlin Alexanderplatz: The Story of Franz Biberkopf

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Berlin Alexanderplatz is one of the masterpieces of modern European literature and the first German novel to adopt the technique of James Joyce.

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