Berger: 852 books
Reichstag Fire
The Case Against the Nazi Conspiracy
Language: English
Release Date: September 5, 2016
The Reichstag fire on February 27, 1933 arguably marked the true start of the Third Reich. The attack was used by the Nazis to consolidate their position, crush the Communists, and pass a series of dictatorial laws. The self-confessed culprit was Marinus van de Lubbe, a Dutch Communist sympathizer...
Figures of a Changing World
Metaphor and the Emergence of Modern Culture
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2015
Figures of a Changing World offers a dramatic new account of cultural change, an account based on the distinction between two familiar rhetorical figures, metonymy and metaphor. The book treats metonymy as the basic organizing trope of traditional culture and metaphor as the basic organizing trope...
50 and More Essential NMR Experiments
A Detailed Guide
Language: English
Release Date: July 30, 2013
This book is the perfect link for learning how to perform the experiments after only having studied theory. In eight chapters more than 50 essential NMR experiments are described in detail. Special focus is put on the organic set of NMR spectra (1H, 13C-APT, COSY, NOESY, HSQC and HMBC). Different...
Friendly Enemies
Britain and the GDR, 1949-1990
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2010
During the Cold War, Britain had an astonishing number of contacts and connections with one of the Soviet Bloc’s most hard-line regimes: the German Democratic Republic. The left wing of the British Labour Party and the Trade Unions often had closer ties with communist East Germany than the Communist...
Solidarity with Solidarity
Western European Trade Unions and the Polish Crisis, 1980–1982
Language: English
Release Date: July 10, 2012
The Polish crisis in the early 1980s provoked a great deal of reaction in the West. Not only governments, but social movements were also touched by the establishment of the Iindependent Trade Union Solidarnosc in the summer of 1980, the proclamation of martial law in December 1981, and Solidarnosc's...
by Robin Berger
Language: English
Release Date: February 17, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: February 17, 2016
This book is the outcome of an idea, and the idea is very simple. It is that the best way to understand the dramatic transformation any idea can bring and to successfully bring ideas across, is to think of them as profound insights and moments of clarity often disguised as wit, captured in one single...
Surviving the Holocaust
A Life Course Perspective
Language: English
Release Date: August 23, 2010
Surviving the Holocaust is a compelling sociological account of two brothers who survived the Holocaust in Nazi-occupied Poland. One brother, the author’s father, endured several concentration camps, including the infamous camp at Auschwitz, as well as a horrific winter death march; while the...
by Rony Berger, Mo Therese Hannah
Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 2013
Preventive Approaches in Couples Therapy is the first thorough overview of the leading approaches to preventing marital distress and dissolution. Written for professionals, paraprofessionals, and lay people involved in the development and implementation of preventive programs, the editors have created...
by Fabienne Millet, Sioux Berger
Language: French
Release Date: March 16, 2011
Language: French
Release Date: March 16, 2011
Le traitement de fond pour gérer le stress : l'anxiété, la déprime, la spasmophilie, les insomnies. L'indispensable pour profiter des bienfaits des plantes. Phytothérapie, gemmothérapie, aromathérapie : comment s'y retrouver ? Pour chaque thématique, toutes les plantes à utiliser sous leurs...
Durkheim is Dead!
Sherlock Holmes is Introduced to Social Theory
Language: English
Release Date: April 28, 2003
In this sociology textbook/mystery novel, students can join Sherlock Holmes and Watson as they discover a new area ripe for acrimony and intrigue: social theory. In 1910, the most prominent social theorists in the world gather in London for a conference on the new science of sociology. Things rapidly...
Human Development, Language and the Future of Mankind
The Madness of Culture
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2014
Drawing on and integrating unorthodox thought from a broad range of disciplines including clinical psychology, linguistics, philosophy, natural science and psychoanalysis, this book offers a provocative, original analysis of the global threats to our survival, and proposes a remedy.
by Madame De Stael, Morroe Berger
Language: English
Release Date: July 12, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: July 12, 2017
Madame Germaine de Stael is often regarded as the "mistress to an age", or (like England and Russia) one of the three great European "powers" of the 19th century. She was in some sense both, but she was also an important and influential writer whose works, astonishingly, have not,...
by Iris Berger
Language: English
Release Date: April 25, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: April 25, 2016
During a turbulent colonial and postcolonial century, African women struggled to control their own marital, sexual and economic lives and to gain a significant voice in local and national politics. This book introduces many remarkable women, who organized religious and political movements, fought...
Hoop Dreams on Wheels
Disability and the Competitive Wheelchair Athlete
Language: English
Release Date: August 27, 2010
Hoop Dreams on Wheels is a life-history study of wheelchair athletes associated with a premier collegiate wheelchair basketball program. The book, which grapples with the intersection of biography and history in society, situates the study in broader context with background on the history and sociology...