Ernst: 1147 books

**One of the great war memoirs, now featuring a foreword by the New York Times bestselling author of Matterhorn in time for the centenary of World War I and the Battle of the Somme ** ** A worldwide bestseller published shortly after the end of World War I, Storm of Steel is a memoir of astonishing...

Autobiographical sketches by the philosopher and semioticist Ernst von Glasersfeld.The author writes:"Memories are a personal affair. They are what comes to mind when you think back, not what might in fact have happened at that earlier time in your life. You can no longer be certain of what seemed important...

Of American and German parentage, Ernst Hanfstaengl graduated from Harvard and ran the family business in New York for a dozen years before returning to Germany in 1921. By chance he heard a then little-known Adolf Hitler speaking in a Munich beer hall and, mesmerized by his extraordinary oratorical...

Hätte es bereits in der Antike eine Boulevardpresse gegeben – der Hof des Herodes wäre nie aus den Schlagzeilen gekommen. Herodes ließ Mitglieder aus dem engsten Familienkreis hinrichten, darunter seine Ehefrau Mariamme, mindestens drei seiner Söhne, seine Schwiegermutter Alexandra und seinen...

Se cierra con este volumen uno de los documentos memorialísticos más completos y representativos del siglo xx, que Ernst Jünger inició con su Diario de la primera guerra mundial, prosiguió con los diarios que dedicó a su vida como oficial de la Wehrmacht en el París ocupado de los años cuarenta...

Dieser Klassiker über die Justiz der Weimarer Republik aus dem Jahr 1931 beschreibt im Stil eines Tatsachenromans, wie die von Kaiserreich und Klassendünkel geprägte Justiz sich gegen die Entwicklung eines demokratischen und sozialen Staates sträubt und dadurch denjenigen den Weg ebnet, die einen...

Es beginnt Anfang des Jahres 3459. Perry Rhodans Gehirn ist in seinen Körper zurückgekehrt, und die Galaxis wartet voller Spannung auf die Konsequenzen, die sich aus dem ""Kosmischen Schachspiel"" ergeben könnten. Als dann aber die Sterne erlöschen, kommt alles anders als erhofft....

Published just after the Second World War, European Literature and the Latin Middle Ages is a sweeping exploration of the remarkable continuity of European literature across time and place, from the classical era up to the early nineteenth century, and from the Italian peninsula to the British Isles....

The plays collected within this volume are social dramas and tragedies. They bear witness to human suffering, and to fine yet vain struggles to vanquish this suffering. Four of these plays were written in prison, others were banned. This early work by Ernst Toller was originally published in 1934, we are now republishing it with a brand new introductory biography.

Conductor, composer, and writer Bruno Walter (1876–1962) worked closely with Gustav Mahler as the composer's assistant and protégé. His revealing recollections of Mahler were written in 1936, marking the twenty-fifth anniversary of the composer's death. Walter first encountered Mahler more than...

"Should be a bedside reader for every author, composer, singer, critic, or layman interested in music." — Critic's ChoiceAn accomplished composer, pianist, writer, and teacher presents an easy and entertaining guide for players at all levels of expertise. Ernst Bacon offers valuable tips on working,...

The Night lasted five years and eight days. Before the Night began, Ernst Bornstein was a precocious eighteen-year-old¬ who had an ordinary family with three siblings, two parents, and a large circle of friends and relatives. But in the autumn of 1939, decades of anti-Semitic propaganda turned into...

"At the age of thirty-five, the fashionable Viennese playwright and journalist Theodor Herzl fantasized about the collective conversion of the Jews in a mass ceremony at the cathedral of St. Stephen. By the time he died, a mere nine years later, he had redefined Jewish identity in terms of a...

Ernst Heinrich Haeckel (1834–1919) was renowned as one of the foremost early exponents of Darwinism. His work was credited with having caused the acceptance of Darwinism in Europe, and his popular studies ― preaching the continuity of all life, organic and inorganic, from prehistoric time to the...