Berger: 852 books
Razor Clams
Buried Treasure of the Pacific Northwest
Language: English
Release Date: August 24, 2017
In this lively history and celebration of the Pacific razor clam, David Berger shares with us his love affair with the glossy, gold-colored Siliqua patula and gets into the nitty-gritty of how to dig, clean, and cook them using his favorite recipes. In the course of his investigation, Berger brings...
Cultural Criticism
A Primer of Key Concepts
Language: English
Release Date: November 14, 1994
In this guide to cultural criticism, Arthur Asa Berger presents complex concepts in jargon-free language, making the book an ideal introductory text. It covers the key theorists, concepts, and subject areas, from literary, sociological and psychoanalytical theories of semiotics and Marxism. Berger...
Attention Deficit Democracy
The Paradox of Civic Engagement
Language: English
Release Date: August 22, 2011
Handwringing about political apathy is as old as democracy itself. As early as 425 BC, the playwright Aristophanes ridiculed his fellow Athenians for gossiping in the market instead of voting. In more recent decades, calls for greater civic engagement as a democratic cure-all have met with widespread...
Marriage Meetings for Lasting Love
30 Minutes a Week to the Relationship You've Always Wanted
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2014
Most couples — because they watch so many of their peers divorce and are themselves the products of failed marriages — don't have many successful long-term-relationship role models. Parenting and communication issues are perennial, while some challenges, like increasingly 24-7 work lives and economic...
Reading Matter
Multidisciplinary Perspectives on Material Culture
Language: English
Release Date: July 28, 2017
To be civilized involves, among other things, making, using, and buying objects. Although speculation on the significance of objects often tends to be casual, there are professionals--anthropologists, historians, semioticians, Marxists, sociologists, and psychologists--who analyze material culture...
The Holocaust, Religion, and the Politics of Collective Memory
Beyond Sociology
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2017
The program of extermination Nazis called the Final Solution took the lives of approximately six million Jews, amounting to roughly 60 percent of European Jewry and a third of the world's Jewish population. Studying the Holocaust from a sociological perspective, Ronald J. Berger explains why the Final...
Big League Dream
The Sweet Taste of Life in the Majors
Language: English
Release Date: May 8, 2017
The chosen few who made it-and the many who only dreamed of it-find themselves as teammates and contemporaries. The result is golden. Entertaining, engaging, funny, and heartwarming, Big League Dream, with the Foreword written by Bucky Dent, is Roy Berger's nostalgic paean to a game he loves and grew...
by George Berger
Language: German
Release Date: May 6, 2010
Language: German
Release Date: May 6, 2010
In der Zeit, in welcher der Punkrock den Zeitgeist beherrschte, waren Crass an der Spitze der Bewegung und definierten neue Maßstäbe.
Crass waren also nicht nur das Gesicht des Anarcho-Punk, sondern auch die Speerspitze einer revolutionären Bewegung.
Sie waren eine der ersten Bands die ihre...
Video Games
A Popular Culture Phenomenon
Language: English
Release Date: July 28, 2017
From their inception, video games quickly became a major new arena of popular entertainment. Beginning with very primitive games, they quickly evolved into interactive animated works, many of which now approach film in terms of their visual excitement. But there are important differences, as Arthur...
Gretchen
Ein Frankfurter Kriminalfall
Language: German
Release Date: November 16, 2009
Das wahre Gretchen Frankfurt im Jahr 1771. Die Dienstmagd Susann wird von ihrer eigenen Schwester bezichtigt, ihr Neugeborenes getötet zu haben. Wenige Tage später lässt sich die Flüchtige am Stadttor widerstandslos festnehmen. Im Römer beginnt der Prozess gegen sie. Der Fall erregt die Gemüter....
Flammen oder Das Wort der Frau
Erzählung
Language: German
Release Date: May 8, 2013
Die jüdische Dichterin Gertrud Kolmar wurde 1943 deportiert und in Auschwitz umgebracht. Nach dem Krieg machte sich im Westen Deutschlands Hermann Kasack um ihr Werk verdient. Im Osten tat dies Uwe Berger, der auch die Erzählung FLAMMEN über sie schrieb. Dabei benutzt er das authentische Material,...
by Uwe Berger
Language: German
Release Date: August 11, 2013
Language: German
Release Date: August 11, 2013
In dieser Autobiografie von 1987 bemerkt Uwe Berger:' Weil ich so ganz Künstler bin, liebe ich das Leben über alles.' Sein Leben beginnt in Emden mit dem Duft von Meer und Weite. Augsburg schenkt ihm Mittelalter, Reformation und Renaissance. Berlin konfrontiert ihn mit vielfältiger Kunst. Sein...
by Arcadia Berger
Language: English
Release Date: April 7, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: April 7, 2014
Jules Verne's prophetic story of an expedition to the Moon, retold by Arcadia Berger as an erotic Steampunk romp. In the re-imagined version, the members of the Baltimore Gun Club enjoy an active sex life as they plan and carry out the casting of a gigantic cannon to launch an aluminum shell to hit...
by David Berger
Language: French
Release Date: July 4, 2013
Language: French
Release Date: July 4, 2013
Une bonne rasade de ligue 1, un zeste de football étranger. Saurez-vous relever le défi et rassembler tous les ingrédients qui feront de vous le parfait expert footballistique ? David Berger est grand reporter au service des sports de Canal +. Outre ses activités de commentateur...