Richard Winston
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English
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Here, National Book Award winner Richard Winston explores life in the Middle Ages - from the fifth to the fifteenth centuries, beginning with the fall of the Roman Empire to the dawn of the Renaissance. In both countryside and towns, from peasants to the bourgeoisie to nobility, no aspect of life in this era is left unexplored.
5) Charlemagne
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Pub. Date
1968
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English
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Surveys the age of Charlemagne and his influence on subsequent periods of European history. Profusely illustrated with photographs of art dating from the time of Charlemagne.
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English
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How does Paul assess Israel's error with reference to the law in Romans 9:30--10:13, and what solution does he present? In the years since the dawn of the New Perspective on Paul, interpreters continue to discuss what the Mosaic law required and how Paul described Israel's plight and solution. In this work, Richard Winston argues for a traditional law-gospel explanation of a central passage in Paul's discussion of faith and the law (Rom 9:30--10:13),...
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English
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Yeast, water, flour, and heat. How could this simple mixture have been the cause of war and plague, celebration and victory supernatural vision and more? In this remarkable and all-encompassing volume, H. E. Jacob takes us through six thousand dynamic years of bread's role in politics, religion, technology, and beyond. Who were the first bakers? Why were bakers distrusted during the Middle Ages? How did bread cause Napoleon's defeat? Why were people...
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English
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"Rahel Varnhagen: The Life of a Jewish Woman was Hannah Arendt's first book, largely completed when she went into exile from Germany in 1933, though it would not be published until the 1950s. It is the biography of a remarkable, complicated, troubled, passionate woman, an important figure in German romanticism, the person who in a sense founded the Goethe cult that would become central to German cutural life in the nineteenth century, as well as someone...
10) Thumbeline
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English
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The adventures of a tiny girl no bigger than a thumb and her many animal friends.
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Rinehart editions ; no. 138
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Holt, Rinehart and Winston
Pub. Date
[1969]
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English
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Set in the 23rd century, "The glass bead game" is the story of Joseph Knecht, who has been raised in Castalia, the remote place his society has provided for the intellectual elite to grow and flourish. Since childhood, Knecht has been consumed with mastering the Glass Bead Game, which requires a synthesis of aesthetics and scientific arts, such as mathematics, music, logic, and philosophy, which he achieves in adulthood, becoming a Magister Ludi (Master...
15) The ark
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Harcourt, Brace
Pub. Date
[1953]
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English
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Describes life in post World War II Germany.
16) Two views
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Publisher
Harcourt, Brace & World
Pub. Date
[1966]
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English
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"Of the new writers in Germany (and the most discussed- with the Formentor Prize book still to come) Uwe Johnson is certainly the closest exponent of the nouveau roman of France in which the novel represents a state of suspension and objects objectify ("things"-- "choisisme"). While the theme is the same as in Speculations About Jacob (1963) -- the divisiveness of East and West Germany--there are fewer abstractions, fewer symbols, but still the same...
17) The pledge
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Knopf
Pub. Date
1959.
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English
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A detective, unsatisfied with a suspect's confession to the murder of a little girl, tries to use another girl as bait to catch the killer.
19) Blue mystery
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Publisher
Harcourt, Brace and Co
Pub. Date
[1957]
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English
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A mystery story set in a German town: Who had stolen the priceless blue gloxinia? How had it been taken from the experimental greenhouse? Many people coveted the plant, perhaps enough to resort to stealing, but only an employee of the nursery would have had access to it. The evidence pointed strongly to the young red-haired apprentice, Fridolin. Aloof and sullen, he did little to defend himself. But ten-year-old Annegret, daughter of the nursery owner,...