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Let Us Prove Strong: The American Jewish Committee, 1945-2006 (buecher.de - (Teil1)) |  Produktbeschreibung (22536124): The American Jewish Committee (AJC), founded by wealthy men of German-Jewish descent in 1906, has a long-term mission to protect the civil and religious rights of Jews in the U.S. and around the globe. The AJC has also been distinguished for its outstanding staff and superb library, for its importance as a research center, and for its efforts to bring about social change through public education. Marianne Sanua´s volume offers a full-scale history of this important organization, which will shortly celebrate its centennial. | | >>> Jetzt bei buecher.de - (Teil1) ansehen oder für EUR 57.95 bestellen! |
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|  Produktbeschreibung (21589552): Too short to be a novel, too long to be a short story, the novella is generally unrecognised by academics and publishers. Nonetheless, it is a form beloved and practiced by literature´s greatest writers. In ´´The Art of the Novella Series´´, Melville House celebrates this renegade art form and its practitioners with titles that are, in many instances, presented in book form for the first time. This chilling tale of one man´s descent into madness was published shortly before the author was institutionalized for insanity, and so ´´The Horla´´ has inevitably been seen as informed by Guy de Maupassant´s mental illness. While such speculation is murky, it is clear that de Maupassant - hailed alongside Chekhov as father of the short story - was at the peak of his powers in this innovative precursor of first-person psychological fiction. Indeed, he worked for years on ´´The Horla´s´´ themes and form, first drafting it as ´´Letter from a Madman,´´ then telling it from a doctor´s point of view, before finally releasing the terrified protagonist to speak for himself in its devastating final version. In a brilliant new translation, all three versions appear here as a single volume for the first time. | | >>> Jetzt bei buecher.de - (Teil1) ansehen oder für EUR 7.99 bestellen! |
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Murder by Suicide: And Other Poems of Love and Desperation (buecher.de - (Teil2)) | | Produktbeschreibung (21989237): Take a poetic journey with author Joe Nance, as he struggles to live life on life´s terms. The journey begins with a descent into insanity that leads to the brink of suicide. At the last moment, God´s intervention saves the author and brings him to a realization that there is hope in continuing to live. Anger, self-hatred, self-pity and regret are ever-present, but with God´s help and interaction with other people, he begins the journey back to life. If ´´Murder by Suicide´´ can help just one other person realize that hope is not lost, that life can change, then the writing of the tale was worth all the pain, tears and agony. | | >>> Jetzt bei buecher.de - (Teil2) ansehen oder für EUR 12.95 bestellen! |
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|  Produktbeschreibung (21178272): Christina Lyon was born in Edinburgh, Scotland and grew up in southern England. Her father, a brilliant concert pianist of Polish descent whose mysterious past left him hardened and embittered, caused Christina to flee home as a young woman. Years later, upon his death Christina | | >>> Jetzt bei buecher.de - (Teil1) ansehen oder für EUR 17.95 bestellen! |
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The Inner Voice of Love: A Journey Through Anguish to Freedom (buecher.de - (Teil2)) | | Produktbeschreibung (21068941): ?This book is my secret journal, ? Nouwen writes. At first, he had no intention of sharing this personal diary of the dark and difficult months when he felt all meaning in his life was missing and all ahead seemed a dark, bottomless abyss. In spite of his inner turmoil, Nouwen recorded the descent into his heart in these 63 journal entries. Friends persuaded him that sharing his painful soul-searching might help others who also struggle to embrace life with joy. | | >>> Jetzt bei buecher.de - (Teil2) ansehen oder für EUR 15.26 bestellen! |
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|  Produktbeschreibung (22279475): Cal has struggled to cope with his mother´s drinking and her psychotic episodes since he was six; cooped up in their dirty council flat he dreams of a new life. So when he leaves to live with his uncle Trevor in Chepstow he is ruthless about breaking with the past, despite his mother´s despair. But getting off the train at the wrong station he finds himself at the castle of the Fisher King, and from then on moves in a nightmare spiral of predetermined descent into a wasteland of desolation and adventure, always seeking the way back to the Grail he has betrayed. Catherine Fisher has created a gripping and highly moving novel that moves between myth and a contemporary journey of self-knowledge until one becomes indistinguishable from the other. Drawing in Arthurian themes, historical re-enactments and the Four Hallows, Cal´s quest for a return to peace of mind is an elaborate and ambitious Grail novel for our time. This is an important new work from the author of the ´´Book of the Crow´´. | | >>> Jetzt bei buecher.de - (Teil1) ansehen oder für EUR 6.99 bestellen! |
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Grave: A Poem Illustrated by Twelve Etchings (buecher.de - (Teil1)) |  Produktbeschreibung (22348757): The poem by William Blake, together with stunning etchings based on Blake´s original hand-painted illustrations, and Blake´s descriptions of the designs: ´´By the arrangement here made, the regular progression of Man, from his first descent into the Vale of Death, to his last admission into Life eternal, is exhibited.´´ | | >>> Jetzt bei buecher.de - (Teil1) ansehen oder für EUR 12.95 bestellen! |
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Making Sense of the Troubles: The Story of the Conflict in Northern Ireland (buecher.de - (Teil2)) | | Produktbeschreibung (21033231): After a chapter of background on the period from 1921 to 1963, this text on the Troubles in Northern Ireland covers the ensuing period - the descent into violence, the hunger strikes, the Anglo-Irish accord and the bombers in England - to the contemporary, shaky peace process. Behind the deluge of information and opinion about the conflict, there is a straightforward and gripping story. This text aims to tell that story, it describes and explains a lethal but fascinating time in Northen Ireland´s history, which brought not only death, injury and destruction, but enormous political and social change. It closes on an optimistic note, convinced that while peace - if it comes - will always be imperfect, a corner has now been decisively turned. | | >>> Jetzt bei buecher.de - (Teil2) ansehen oder für EUR 19.95 bestellen! |
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East by South: China in the Australasian Imagination (buecher.de - (Teil1)) |  Produktbeschreibung (21487556): At a time when China is being seen as the next superpower, both sweatshop and powerhouse for the global economy, political courtship on the part of interested governments is accompanied by grassroots hostility. Such ambivalence is not new. These essays - discuss ways in which people of Chinese descent have made significant contributions to the history of both Australian and New Zealand. This is the first book to compare both countries´ orientalism and its various alternatives. | | >>> Jetzt bei buecher.de - (Teil1) ansehen oder für EUR 37.95 bestellen! |
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