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This early work, originally published in 1922, is both expensive and hard to find in its first edition. Written by the German dramatist Georg Kaiser, one the most successful Expressionist dramatists of his age. This play, among the most frequently performed German Expressionist works, charts the life...

As a young adult in wartime Vienna, Georg Rauch helped his mother hide dozens of Jews from the Gestapo behind false walls in their top-floor apartment and arrange for their safe transport out of the country. His family was among the few who worked underground to resist Nazi rule. Then came the day...

The aim of this book is to show that the world, including human beings and their consciousness, is not originally a world of thing but a world of words; that fundamentally the world has the structure of a text; and that it is therefore possible to read it like a test (Georg Kühlewind). To realize this...

Clashing together outrageous musical influences and extravagantly visual imagery, Queen's place in history as the greatest glam band of them all is rock solid. Their fan base continues to grow, a decade and a half on from the death of Freddie Mercury, Queen's super-charismatic front man. Georg...

Von Hitlers "Volkswagen" zum Weltkonzern: wie eine Familie Europas größte Autofirma an den Abgrund führte Drei Dinge zählen im Leben, behauptet Ferdinand Piëch, Enkel des genialen Ferdinand Porsche: "Volkswagen, Familie, Geld – in dieser Reihenfolge." Trickreich, ruppig...

Kaffir (Xhosa) Folk Tales by Georg McCall Theal "[A collection of folklore from the Kaffir people of South Africa.] By the 15th century, the word kafir/kuffir was used by Muslims in Africa to refer to the non-Muslim African natives. (Kafir translated means infidel / disbeliever.)...

Georg Markus blickt hinter die Kulissen: -Die großen Theaterdynastien -Wer war der erste Schauspieler? -Theaterskandale -Künstlerportraits und Begegnungen mit den bedeutendsten Schauspielern der Jahrhunderts -Heiteres und Ernstes vom Theater und seinen Stars -Pointen aus dem Kabarett -Das Geheimnis des Ifflandrings -u. v. m.

Die großen Film- und Theaterstars waren - im Gegensatz zu den Fernsehlieblingen von heute - unnahbar, sie wurden dem Publikum als überdimensionale Helden präsentiert. In ihrem Inneren freilich waren auch sie Menschen wie du und ich, die vom Schicksal nicht verschont blieben. Georg Markus fand einen...

“It is childish to suppose that a hundred books can be named as those which are the best for each and every one. The simplest experience of the world proves that a work of great excellence may deeply move one person, while it leaves another untouched; and that a book which has influenced one strongly...

Joseph Haydn (1732-1809), el "padre de la sinfonía", es uno de los compositores clásicos más celebrados de la historia, y al mismo tiempo protagonista de una biografía casi desconocida para el lector en español. La fama de Haydn fue tal que, ya en vida, tres escritores emprendieron...

A noted scholar of Eastern philosophy explains how to make the experience of heightened awareness a part of everyday life, and how this can transform the planet. Lucid waking means bringing an intense awareness to the business of living by meeting the challenges of existence sanely, creatively,...

Truth and Method is a landmark work of 20th century thought which established Hans Georg-Gadamer as one of the most important philosophical voices of the 20th Century. In this book, Gadamer established the field of 'philosophical hermeneutics': exploring the nature of knowledge, the book rejected...

Hermeneutics between History and Philosophy collects together Gadamer's remaining important untranslated writings on the problem of history and the major philosophical traditions of the 20th century from the standpoint of hermeneutics. In these writings, Gadamer examines important thinkers as Husserl,...

According to Wikipedia: "Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel (August 27, 1770 November 14, 1831) was a German philosopher, one of the creators of German Idealism. His historicist and idealist account of reality as a whole revolutionized European philosophy and was an important precursor to Continental philosophy...