Gregor: 428 books
by Gregor Von Rezzori
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2012
Gregor von Rezzori was born in Czernowitz, a onetime provincial capital of the Austro-Hungarian Empire that was later to be absorbed successively into Romania, the USSR, and the Ukraine—a town that was everywhere and nowhere, with a population of astonishing diversity. Growing up after World War...
by Gregor Hens
Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 2017
By turns philosophical and darkly comic, an ex-smoker's meditation on the nature and consequences of his nearly lifelong addiction
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Written with the passion of an obsessive, Nicotine addresses a lifelong addiction, from the thrill of the first drag to the perennial last last cigarette. Reflecting...
Der Spediteur Gottes
Ein Leben zwischen Welt und Kloster
Language: German
Release Date: October 1, 2018
Vom Manager zum Abt des Stifts Heiligenkreuz Gregor Ulrich Henckel Donnersmarck, Altabt des Zisterzienserstifts Heiligenkreuz, erzählt die Geschichte seines Lebens, das vor allem eines ist: ungewöhnlich, unkonventionell und bewegt. Geboren in eine Adelsfamilie, die in Schlesien durch Steinkohlebergbau...
Baddest of the Bad
The Chronicles of Stygius of The Nefarians, #1
Language: English
Release Date: June 24, 2017
Stygius Ghenghis Brian Anthrax Doom Inferno is just like any other 10-year-old boy, with just a couple of minor differences. Firstly he has blue hair. Secondly - two hearts. Thirdly he is the Emperor of Nefaria, which is a star system consisting of one really nice world, another OK one and then some...
Wissenschaftliches Publizieren in der Psychologie
Ein praktischer Wegweiser und Leitfaden
Language: German
Release Date: September 10, 2018
Dieser Leitfaden ist gedacht als Wegweiser von der Idee zur erfolgreichen Publikation im Rahmen einer Dissertation, Habilitation oder anderer wissenschaftlicher Projekte – geschrieben für Studierende, Doktorierende, Post-Doktorierende und Forscher in Psychologie, Sozialwissenschaften, Neurowissenschaften...
by Gregor Daniels
Language: English
Release Date: March 23, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: March 23, 2014
After a mistake in residential availability at a university, Sam is assigned to live with a strange sorority on the campus, where the girls inside are a little different than the average college chicks. Once the existence of magic is no longer a secret, the young man will be the subject of several...
Chopin's Prophet
The Life of Pianist Vladimir de Pachmann
Language: English
Release Date: September 5, 2013
Vladimir de Pachmann was perhaps history’s most notorious pianist. Widely regarded as the greatest player of Chopin’s works, Pachmann embedded comedic elements—be it fiddling with his piano bench or flirting with the audience—within his classic piano recitals to alleviate his own anxiety over...
Uprooted
How Breslau Became Wroclaw during the Century of Expulsions
Language: English
Release Date: August 8, 2011
With the stroke of a pen at the Potsdam Conference following the Allied victory in 1945, Breslau, the largest German city east of Berlin, became the Polish city of Wroclaw. Its more than six hundred thousand inhabitants--almost all of them ethnic Germans--were expelled and replaced by Polish settlers...
Lucky Kunst
The Rise and Fall of Young British Art
Language: English
Release Date: January 25, 2010
These days artists like Damien Hirst and Tracey Emin are major celebrities. But Gregor Muir knew them at the start; his unique memoir chronicles the birth of Young British Art. Muir, YBA’ s ‘ embedded journalist’ , happened to be in Shoreditch and Hoxton before Jay Jopling arrived with his White...
Kirill Kondrashin
His Life in Music
Language: English
Release Date: December 29, 2009
Kirill Kondrashin is regarded as one of the most brilliant Russian conductors of the 20th century and a great interpreter of Shostakovich, Prokofiev, Tchaikovsky, and Mahler. In Kirill Kondrashin: His Life in Music, Gregor Tassie presents a full biography of the artist, from his humble background...
Nikolay Myaskovsky
The Conscience of Russian Music
Language: English
Release Date: May 5, 2014
Gregor Tassie describes Nikolay Myaskovsky as “one of the great enigmas of 20th-century Russian music.” Between the two world wars, the symphonies of Myaskovsky enjoyed great popularity and were performed by all major American and European orchestras; they were some of the most inspiring symphonic...
1815
The Roads to Waterloo
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2011
The seventeen months from April 1814 to August 1815 were an extraordinary period in European history; a period which saw two sieges of Paris, a complete revision of Europe's political frontiers, an international Congress set up in Vienna, civil war in Italy and international war in Belgium.Gregor...
To Walk with the Devil
Slovene Collaboration and Axis Occupation, 1941-1945
Language: English
Release Date: February 22, 2013
In the spring of 1941, when Slovenia was invaded by Germany, Italy, and Hungary, Slovenes faced at best assimilation, and at worst deportation or extermination. Still, a significant number of Slovenes would eventually collaborate with the Axis powers. Why were they so ready to work with their invaders,...
by Gregor Salmon
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2013
In cold, murky water, working by touch alone, they defuse a mine powerful enough to sink a battleship: welcome to the thrilling and dangerous world of the Royal Australian Navy clearance divers.
In the thick of the Vietnam War another elite unit of clearance divers went to Vung Tau retrieving...