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An Introduction to Continental Philosophy
This book provides a clear, concise and readable introduction to philosophy in the continental tradition. It is a wide-ranging and reliable guide to the work of such major figures as...
Three Sisters: The breathtaking new novel from the author of The
'I want you to make a promise to me that you will always take care of your sisters. That you will always be there for one another. That you will...
Modern Art 1851-1929: Capitalism and Representation
The period 1851 to 1929 witnessed the rise of the major European avant-garde groups: the Realists, Impressionists, Post-Impressionists, Symbolists, Cubists, and Surrealists. It was also a time of rapid social,...
Modern Painting & the Northern Romant
The book titled Modern Painting & the Northern Romant by the author Robert Rosenblum. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.
Early Modernism: Literature, Music, and Painting in Europe 1900-1916
From the advent of Fauvism to the development of Dada, the early part of this century saw a series of avant-garde movements in European literature, music, and painting, which fundamentally...
'Exterminate All The Brutes'
Over twenty years ago, Sven Lindqvist, one of the great pioneers of a new kind of experiential history writing, set out across Central Africa. Obsessed with a single line from...
Orientalism: Delacroix to Klee
In the 19th and early 20th century, painters and photographers from many countries travelled for inspiration to the Islamic worlds of Egypt, Turkey, Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia, Syria and Palestine. Published...
Provincializing Europe: Postcolonial Thought and Historical Difference
Can European thought be dislodged from the center of the practice of history in a non-European place? What problems arise when we translate cultural practices into the categories of social...
Martyred Village: Commemorating the 1944 Massacre at Oradour-sur-Glane
Among German crimes of the Second World War, the Nazi massacre of 642 men, women, and children at Oradour-sur-Glane on June 10, 1944, is one of the most notorious. On...
Out of this Century - Confessions of an Art Addict: The Autobiography
This is the fascinating autobiography of a society heiress who became the bohemian doyenne of the art world. Written in her own words it is the frank and outspoken story...
Battle at Sea: From Man-of-war to Submarine
The author concentrates on four key conflicts, Trafalgar, Jutland, Midway and the Battle of the Atlantic. He aims to take readers into the heart of the fighting and also to...
Zero Night: The Untold Story of World War Two's Greatest Escape: The
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A thrilling, moment by moment account of an epic World War II escape and the real-life adventures that followed. On August 30, 1942 - 'Zero Night' - 40 Allied officers...
Final Solution: The Fate of the Jews 1933-1949
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David Cesarani's Final Solution is a magisterial work of history that chronicles the fate of Europe's Jews. Based on decades of scholarship, documentation newly available from the opening of Soviet...
Denying the Holocaust: The Growing Assault on Truth and Memory
The denial of the Holocaust has no more credibility than the assertion that the earth is flat. Yet it is a sad testament to our time that those who make...
The Fatherland and the Jews: Two Pamphlets by Alfred Wiener, 1919 and
The inaugural title in a collaboration between the Wiener Library and Granta Books. These two pamphlets, 'Prelude to Pogroms? Facts for the Thoughtful' and 'German Judaism in Political, Economic and...
Children with a Star: Jewish Youth in Nazi Europe
The book is based on hundreds of oral histories, conducted in Europe and North America, with survivors who were children in the Holocaust, primary documentation uncovered by the author (including...
The End of Europe: Dictators, Demagogues, and the Coming Dark Age
The disintegration of Europe's post-Cold War consensus in the face of anti-Semitism, populist nationalism, and territorial aggression Once the world's bastion of liberal, democratic values, Europe is now having to...
The Dawn of Universal History
This comprehensive anthology of newly translated writings presents some of Aron's most important essays in 20th-century intellectual history and political commentary.. In this collection of essays written over a period...
The Future of a Negation: Reflections on the Question of Genocide
The Future of a Negation is a crucial statement on the Holocaust-and on Holocaust denial-from Alain Finkielkraut, one of the most acclaimed and influential intellectuals in contemporary Europe. The book...
From the Ends of the Earth: The Jews in the 20th Century
The Jewish story is an extraordinary one: of a 'chosen race' but a 'difficult people', living in all countries but until recently without one to call its own. Over the...
Enough: Because We Can Stop Cervical Cancer
Cervical cancer kills almost 350,000 women each year. What's more horrifying, is that millions have died of this disease that's nearly 100% preventable. It's no secret that healthcare is full...
Fight for the Sky: Stories of Wartime Fighter Pilots
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The book titled Fight for the Sky: Stories of Wartime Fighter Pilots by the author Bruce Barrymore Halpenny. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about...
Bittersweet: Based on the True Tale of the Berlin Candy Bombers
Soar into the tender true story of how one airman inspired a movement by airdropping little parachutes of candy to kids trapped in occupied Berlin in this nonfiction picture book...
Bittersweet: Based on the True Tale of the Berlin Candy Bombers
Soar into the tender true story of how one airman inspired a movement by airdropping little parachutes of candy to kids trapped in occupied Berlin in this nonfiction picture book...
The Shock of the Light
'A powerful story, beautifully told' M.L. STEDMAN 'Truly compelling' WILLIAM BOYD 'Exquisitely written and deeply human' CHRIS CLEAVE 'Far-reaching, but also intimate and intensely personal' FLORENCE KNAPP 'Alluring in its...
The Shock of the Light
'A powerful story, beautifully told' M.L. STEDMAN 'Truly compelling' WILLIAM BOYD 'Exquisitely written and deeply human' CHRIS CLEAVE 'Far-reaching, but also intimate and intensely personal' FLORENCE KNAPP 'Alluring in its...
The Shock of the Light
'A powerful story, beautifully told' M.L. STEDMAN 'Truly compelling' WILLIAM BOYD 'Exquisitely written and deeply human' CHRIS CLEAVE 'Far-reaching, but also intimate and intensely personal' FLORENCE KNAPP 'Alluring in its...
Falling Upwards: Inspiration for the Major Motion Picture The
NOW A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE STARRING EDDIE REDMAYNE AND FELICITY JONES A GUARDIAN BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR A NEW STATESMAN BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR A DAILY TELEGRAPH BEST...
After This: Survivors of the Holocaust Speak
On 27 January 2015, the world commemorated the 70-year anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz-Birkenau. As the last living witnesses of that terrible time pass away, award-winning writer Alice Nelson...
Sophisticated Rebels: The Political Culture of European Dissent,
Those who think otherwise, though they may fail, deserve our attention, says H. Stuart Hughes. In Sophisticated Rebels , Hughes shows what happened to the revolutionary spirit after the 1968...
Nationalism
The end of the Cold War and the collapse of the vast Soviet Empire have led to an unexpected revival of nationalism in Europe. Long-forgotten claims, minority conflicts, and nationalist...
Ivan Bunin: A Portrait from Letters, Diaries, and Memoirs: Vol 3: The
In this third and concluding volume of his acclaimed portrait, Mr. Marullo relates the struggle of the writer and of the emigr- Russian artistic community in Europe to keep alive...
A Noble Combat: The Letters of Sheila Grant Duff and Adam von Trott zu
The letters of Shiela Grant Duff and Adam von Trott zu Solz tell of a friendship - tender, strained, and in the end tragic - between a young Englishwoman who...
Precolumbian Art and the Post-Columbian World: Ancient American
An original study of the influence of American art on art of the 20th century and the works of such people as Paul Gauguin, Frank Lloyd Wright, Diego Rivera, Henry...
Cold War Europe, 1945-89: A Political History
The book titled Cold War Europe, 1945-89: A Political History by the author John W. Young. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.
Introducing the Holocaust: A Graphic Guide
Who needs yet another book on the Holocaust? Sadly, most of us. The vast amount of serious research work on the Holocaust never reaches the general public, and our notions...
Eichmann before Jerusalem: The Unexamined Life of a Mass Murderer
A New York Times Notable Book of 2014 Smuggled out of Europe after the collapse of Germany, Eichmann managed to live a peaceful and active exile in Argentina for years...
European Powers, 1900-1945
In 1900 the great European Empires stood prosperous and strong in the centre of the world stage, surrounded by an aura of glamour and optimism. By 1945 the old order...
The Flames: A gripping historical novel set in 1900s Vienna, featuring
A stunning debut novel about the intertwining lives of four remarkable women, the muses who inspired the artist Egon Schiele. For fans of THE PARIS WIFE, THE FAMILIARS, THE MINIATURIST...
Dark Continent: Europe's Twentieth Century
In this remarkable book, Mark Mazower aims to offer a new view of Europe's modern history. The complacent belief that Europe is the natural home of freedom and democracy is...
Holocaust Heroes : Resistance to Hitler's Final Solution
This inspiring book examines the often incredible and nearly always tragic examples of Jewish resistance in ghettos and concentration camps during the Nazis 'Final Solution'. It shows that the Warsaw...
The Light of Battle: Eisenhower, D-Day, and the Birth of the American
A thrilling new biography of Dwight Eisenhower set in the months leading up to D-Day, when he grew from a well-liked general into one of the singular figures of American...
Far from Eutopia: How Europe is failing - and Britain could do better
In 2020, after three and a half years of bitter negotiations, Britain left the European Union. For some it was a day of freedom, for others a tragedy which would...
Borderlines: A History of Europe in 29 Borders
THE REST IS HISTORY CLUB BOOK OF THE MONTH 'One of the most engaging and fascinating histories of Europe I've read for years.' DOMINIC SANDBROOK 'Highly original and insightful' PD...
A Brilliant Life: My Mother's Inspiring Story of Surviving the
SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2024 MARGARET AND COLIN RODERICK LITERARY AWARD SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2024 LESLIE AND SOPHIE CAPLAN AWARD FOR JEWISH NON-FICTION SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2024 AGE NON-FICTION BOOK OF...
Spycraft: Tricks and Tools of the Dangerous Trade from Elizabeth I to
A fascinating exploration of the devious tricks and ingenious tools used by early modern spies-from ciphers to counterfeiting, invisible inks to assassination Early modern Europe was a hotbed of espionage,...