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Contemporary German Plays: The deputy:

Contemporary German Plays: The deputy:

Margaret Herzfeld-Sander

This volume includes the abridged New York stage version of Hocchuth's controversial The Deputy, which is about Pope Pius XII's failure to speak out against Nazi atrocities; In the Case of J. Robert Oppenheimer by Kipphardt; and two plays ...
When the War Was Over: Women, War, and Peace in Europe, ...

When the War Was Over: Women, War, and Peace in Europe, ...

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For their helpful comments on draft versions, I wish to thank Simon Evans, Sander L. Gilman, Diane Neumaier, Glenda Sluga, and Gavin Williams. Finally, my thanks are due to my interviewees: Marion Einhorn, Ursel Herzberg, Erika Herzfeld, ...
Islamic Gardens and Landscapes

Islamic Gardens and Landscapes

D. Fairchild Ruggles

However, the evidence for this has been challenged by later archaeologists who examined Herzfeld's field notes, and Alastair Northedge's plan (reproduced here) shows garden courtyards divided bilaterally. Herzfeld may have been imposing ...
August Sander: Photographs from the J. Paul Getty Museum

August Sander: Photographs from the J. Paul Getty Museum

August Sander

"The approximately fifty plates featured in In Focus: August Sander are some of the most striking from the J. Paul Getty Museum's more than twelve hundred pictures by the artist.
Reading Psychoanalysis: Freud, Rank, Ferenczi, Groddeck

Reading Psychoanalysis: Freud, Rank, Ferenczi, Groddeck

Peter L. Rudnytsky

Acknowledgments. That this book should appear in a series edited by Sander Gilman and George Makari has for me a feeling of inevitability. Like many others, I owe much of my good fortune in the academic profession to Sander Gilman.
Old cemetery burials of Milwaukee County, Wisconsin

Old cemetery burials of Milwaukee County, Wisconsin

Elizabeth Doherty Herzfeld

l8Dccl882 d/o Frederick (Fritz) & Fredericke Fischer, with Edward C 69 FISCHER Anna M b.l884 d.l960 on narrow side of Fischer Family Stone with Gertrude and Henry A 69 FISCHER Anthony M b. l8I9 d. l890 with Margaret, Rose, Louis, ...
Fat: A Cultural History of Obesity

Fat: A Cultural History of Obesity

Sander L. Gilman

This fascinating new book by Sander Gilman looks at the interweaving of fact and fiction about obesity, tracing public concern from the mid-nineteenth century to the modern day.
Fat: A Cultural History of Obesity

Fat: A Cultural History of Obesity

Sander L. Gilman

This fascinating new book by Sander Gilman looks at the interweaving of fact and fiction about obesity, tracing public concern from the mid-nineteenth century to the modern day.
Neopoprealism Starz: Erotica as a high artistic aspiration, ...

Neopoprealism Starz: Erotica as a high artistic aspiration, ...

Nadia Russ

The book collection features the work from Nadia Russ, Jacob El Hanani, Sigmund Abeles, Mark Schieferstein, Charles Seligman II, Paolo Scalera, R. Gopakumar, Joseph Borsotta, David DeRosa, Margaret Livingstone, Terry Brown, Pete Herzfeld, ...
The Dog with the Old Soul: True Stories of the Love, Hope ...

The Dog with the Old Soul: True Stories of the Love, Hope ...

Jennifer Basye Sander

Sander, Jennifer Basye, 1958The dog with the old soul : true stories of the love, hope, and joy animals bring to our lives / Jennifer Basye Sander. p. cm. ISBN 978 -0-373-89262-4 (pbk.) 1. Dogs—Anecdotes. 2. Pet owners—Anecdotes. 3.
Multiculturalism and the Jews

Multiculturalism and the Jews

Sander Gilman

In this powerful and wide-ranging study, Sander Gilman explores the idea of 'the multicultural' in the contemporary world, a question he frames as the question of the relationship between Jews and Muslims.
Multiculturalism and the Jews

Multiculturalism and the Jews

Sander L. Gilman

In this powerful and wide-ranging study, Sander Gilman explores the idea of 'the multicultural' in the contemporary world, a question he frames as the question of the relationship between Jews and Muslims.
Picturing Health and Illness: Images of Identity and Difference

Picturing Health and Illness: Images of Identity and Difference

Sander L. Gilman

In this timely study Sander Gilman demonstrates how images of beauty and ugliness have constructed a visual history which records the artificial boundaries that continue to divide "healthy" bodies from ones that are ill.
Obesity: The Biography

Obesity: The Biography

Sander L. Gilman

Sander L. Gilman, a leading authority in the social and cultural history of the body, presents a fascinating account of the history of obesity, looking at the changing attitudes towards the body, from regarding it as 'God's temple' to more ...
The Jew's Body

The Jew's Body

Sander L. Gilman

Drawing on a wealth of medical and historical materials, Sander Gilman sketches details of the anti-Semitic rhetoric about the Jewish body and mind, including medical and popular depictions of the Jewish voice, feet, and nose.
The Equations: Icons of Knowledge

The Equations: Icons of Knowledge

Sander Bais

Publication coincides with the World Year of Physics: "http://www.wyp2005.nl">www.wyp2005.nl "This beautifully designed book deserves a place on the coffee table .[..] Sander Bais confides the reader in the exciting secrets of the laws of ...
A Miracle Under the Christmas Tree: Real Stories of Hope, ...

A Miracle Under the Christmas Tree: Real Stories of Hope, ...

Jennifer Basye Sander

A Miracle Under the Christmas Tree ISBN-13: 978-0-373-89263-1 © 2012 by Jennifer Basye Sander All rights reserved. The reproduction, transmission or utilization of this work in whole or in part in any form by any electronic, mechanical or ...
The Complete Idiot's Guide to Publishing Magazine Articles

The Complete Idiot's Guide to Publishing Magazine Articles

Jennifer Basye Sander

Jennifer Basye Sander, Sheree Bykofsky. Dead Lines "Dead Lines" boxes contain warnings about professional missteps we want you to be sure to avoid. The Write Words "The Write Words" margin notes contain definitions of terms you need ...
Brungardt Genealogy

Brungardt Genealogy

Helen (Linenberger) Hall

Helen (Linenberger) Hall. First Generation: ADAM BRUNGARDT married Katharine Dreiling Second Generation: John George Brungard t” married Margaret Rome Third Generation: Anna Brungardt (1824-1902)* married John Sander ...
The Crafting of Chaos: Narrative Structure in Margaret ...

The Crafting of Chaos: Narrative Structure in Margaret ...

Hildegard Kuester

1n 1981, Patricia Morley published the monograph Margaret Laurence9 in Twayne's World Authors series; with a few additions, it reappeared on the market ten years later under the title Margaret Laurence: The Long Journey Home.
Margaret Weis' Testament of the Dragon: An Illustrated Novel

Margaret Weis' Testament of the Dragon: An Illustrated Novel

Margaret Weis

Here begins Justin Sterling's centuries-spanning story, as told by bestselling author Margaret Weis and her chosen band of dark fantasists, in the world's first major illustrated novel.
Royal Representations: Queen Victoria and British Culture, ...

Royal Representations: Queen Victoria and British Culture, ...

Margaret Homans

Homans considers versions of Victoria in the work of Elizabeth Barrett Browning, George Eliot, John Ruskin, Margaret Oliphant, Lewis Carroll, Alfred Lord Tennyson, and Julia Margaret Cameron.

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