Gerhard: 782 books
by Professor Gerhard Richter
Language: English
Release Date: February 25, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: February 25, 2016
Gerhard Richter examines, in the work of Walter Benjamin, one of the central problems of modernity: the question of how to receive an intellectual inheritance.
Covering aspects of Benjamin's complex relationship to the legacies of such writers as Kant, Nietzsche, Kafka, Heidegger, and Derrida,...
The Dinner Party
Restoring Women to History
Language: English
Release Date: July 8, 2014
The official publication celebrating Judy Chicago’s feminist art masterpiece, The Dinner Party installation at the Brooklyn Museum, and an introduction to outstanding women in history.
Judy Chicago’s *The Dinner Party is a defining work of feminist and contemporary art that brought women’s...
Jazz Transatlantic, Volume II
Jazz Derivatives and Developments in Twentieth-Century Africa
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2017
A CHOICE 2018 Outstanding Academic Title
In Jazz Transatlantic, Volume II, renowned scholar Gerhard Kubik extends and expands the epic exploration he began in Jazz Transatlantic, Volume I. This second volume amplifies how musicians influenced by swing, bebop, and post-bop in Africa from the...
Jazz Transatlantic, Volume I
The African Undercurrent in Twentieth-Century Jazz Culture
Language: English
Release Date: October 17, 2017
A CHOICE 2018 Outstanding Academic Title
In Jazz Transatlantic, Volume I, renowned scholar Gerhard Kubik takes the reader across the Atlantic from Africa to the Americas and then back in pursuit of the music we call jazz. This first volume explores the term itself and how jazz has been defined...
by Gerhard L. Weinberg
Language: English
Release Date: November 13, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: November 13, 2014
The enormous loss of life and physical destruction caused by the First World War led people to hope that there would never be another such catastrophe. How then did it come about that there was a Second World War causing twice the 30 million deaths and many times more destruction as had been caused...
A More Radical Gospel
Essays on Eschatology, Authority, Atonement, and Ecumenism
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2017
Gerhard O. Forde has stood at the forefront of Lutheran thought for most of his career. This new collection of essays and sermons—many previously unpublished— makes Forde's powerful theological vision more widely available.
The book aptly captures Forde's deep Lutheran commitment. Here...
Theodor W. Adorno
An Introduction
Language: English
Release Date: April 6, 2009
Theodor W. Adorno (1903–1969) was one of the twentieth century’s most important thinkers. In light of two pivotal developments—the rise of fascism, which culminated in the Holocaust, and the standardization of popular culture as a commodity indispensable to contemporary capitalism—Adorno sought...
by Thomas S. Weinberg, Professor Gerhard J. falk, Dr. Ursula Adler Falk
Language: English
Release Date: December 14, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: December 14, 2017
The American Drug Culture uses sociological and other perspectives to examine drug and alcohol use in U.S. society. The text is arranged topically, rather than by categories of drugs, and explores diverse contexts of drug use including popular culture; sexuality; the legal and criminal justice systems;...
One Small Step?
The Great Moon Hoax and the Race to Dominate Earth from Space
Language: English
Release Date: December 17, 2012
Is it possible that the famous American moon landings were nothing but an illusion - a fabrication? Could NASA have fooled the world by broadcasting simulations that had been filmed for training purposes?
From the very first manned flight into orbit right up to the present day there have been...
Jesus of Nazareth
What He Wanted, Who He Was
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2012
Who was Jesus? A prophet? There have been many of those. A miracle-worker? A radical revolutionary? A wise teacher? There have been many of these, too. In his latest book, renowned Scripture scholar Gerhard Lohfink asks, What is unique about Jesus of Nazareth, and what did he really want?
Lohfink...
The Captivation of the Will
Luther vs. Erasmus on Freedom and Bondage
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2017
The Captivation of the Will provocatively revisits a perennial topic of controversy: human free will. Highly esteemed Lutheran thinker Gerhard O. Forde cuts to the heart of the subject by reexamining the famous debate on the will between Luther and Erasmus. Following a substantial introduction by...
by Gerhard Wehr
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2003
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2003
A series of extraordinary questions begin to hover when we consider C.G. Jung and Rudolf Steiner together. What is the relationship between their views of psychology? How can we compare their views on evil, East and West, life after death, technology, clairvoyance, the Christ, alchemy, spiritual practice?...
At the Heart of the Reich
The Secret Diary of Hitler’s Army Adjutant
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2016
A revealing account of Hitler’s thoughts and actions throughout World War II from one of his closest aides.
Major Gerhard Engel was Hitler's army adjutant from 1938 to 1943. During his years with Hitler, Engel kept a diary. After the war, he added material to shed further light on certain...
Power and Privilege
A Theory of Social Stratification
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2013
Power and Privilege seeks to answer the central question of the field of social stratification: Who gets what and why? Using a dialectical view of the development of thought in the discipline, Gerhard Lenski describes the outlines of an emerging synthesis of theories. He shows that perspectives as...