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Karl Marx: His Life and Environment

Karl Marx: His Life and Environment

Isaiah Berlin

Isaiah Berlin's portrait of the father of socialism provides a comprehensive introduction to Marx as theorist of the socialist revolution, illuminating his personality and ideas, and concentrating on those which have historically formed the ...
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 ...
Isaiah

Isaiah

Gary W. Light

But Isaiah is more than just a holiday reading. Isaiah speaks of God's relationship to the prophet, the people, the kings, and the servant.
Gray's Anatomy: Selected Writings

Gray's Anatomy: Selected Writings

John Gray

This is a book to learn from and argue with' Ben Wilson, Literary Review 'A thoroughly enjoyable book ... These essays cover a remarkable range of topics, from Isaiah Berlin to Damien Hirst, from torture to environmentalism.
Human Ecology Economics: A New Framework for Global ...

Human Ecology Economics: A New Framework for Global ...

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Bello, Walden (2002) “Toward a deglobalized world,” in Global Backlash, Robin Broad (ed.) Lanham: Rowman & Littlefield: 292–295. Berlin, Isaiah (ed.) (1997) The Proper Study of Mankind, New York: Farrar, Straus, and Giroux. Bhagwati ...
Information Please Almanac

Information Please Almanac

Ann Golenpaul

... Graanbaum Caorgla O'Kaaffa William Bargama Robert Ward William Grappar leoh Ming Pal Laonard Barnataln Ban ... taKovich Garman Arelnlagas Alberto Glnaatara Joan Miro Ignajlo Sllona Isaiah Berlin Richard Hughaa Hanry Moora ...
The Man Time Forgot: A Tale of Genius, Betrayal, and the ...

The Man Time Forgot: A Tale of Genius, Betrayal, and the ...

Isaiah Wilner

Isaiah Wilner is a writer for New York magazine. He attended Yale University and was editor in chief of the Yale Daily News. He lives in Brooklyn, New York.
Against the Current: Essays in the History of Ideas, Second ...

Against the Current: Essays in the History of Ideas, Second ...

Isaiah Berlin

... for the Jewish Historical Society ofEngland) 'Benjamin Disraeli, Karl Marx and the Search for Identity' appeared in Transaetions ofthejewish Historieal Soeiety ofEngland 22 (19 68-9) (London, 1970: Jewish Historical Society ofEngland) 'The  ...
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 ...
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.
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.
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 ...
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.
Der Standort Adlershof aus Sicht der Beschäftigten: ...

Der Standort Adlershof aus Sicht der Beschäftigten: ...

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Berlin 2010 Heft 159 Karsten Lehmann (Hrsg.): Wertschöpfungsketten in Deutschland und Polen – Das Beispiel Milch und Gemüse. Berlin 2010 Heft 160 Elmar Kulke, Lech Suwala (Hrsg.): Kuba. Bericht zur Hauptexkursion 2009. Berlin 2010 ...
Berlin Game

Berlin Game

Len Deighton

Long-awaited reissue of the first part of the classic spy trilogy, GAME, SET and MATCH, when the Berlin Wall divided not just a city but a world.
Gay Berlin: Birthplace of a Modern Identity

Gay Berlin: Birthplace of a Modern Identity

Robert Beachy

Fascinating, surprising, and informative—Gay Berlin is certain to be counted as a foundational cultural examination of human sexuality. From the Hardcover edition.
The Fall of Berlin

The Fall of Berlin

Anthony Read

The authors have delved into archival research, diaries, and memoirs, and conducted numerous interviews to recreate through brilliantly detailed vignettes the story of Berlin and its resilient inhabitants: the soldiers and ordinary citizens ...
Multilevel Regulation and the EU: The Interplay between ...

Multilevel Regulation and the EU: The Interplay between ...

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Robert Uerpmann-Wittzack studied in Berlin, Tübingen and Aix-en-Provence, where he passed the maîtrise en droit in 1988. In 1993 he obtained the doctoral degree of the Freie Universität Berlin with a dissertation concerning the influence of ...
The Berlin Stories

The Berlin Stories

Christopher Isherwood

The Berlin Stories is inhabited by a wealth of characters: the unforgettable Sally Bowles, whose misadventures in the demimonde were popularized on the American stage and screen by Julie Harris in I Am A Camera and Liza Minnelli in Cabaret; ...
The Berlin Embassy of Lord D'Abernon, 1920-1926

The Berlin Embassy of Lord D'Abernon, 1920-1926

G. Johnson

Lord D'Abernon was the first British ambassador to Berlin after the First World War.
From Bonn to Berlin: German Politics in Transition

From Bonn to Berlin: German Politics in Transition

Lewis Joachim Edinger

In 2002 the seat of the German government will relocate from Bonn to Berlin, completing the reunification process begun in 1990.

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