Wald: 104 books
Martin Luther King: Der letzte Prophet
Widerstand und Mystik
Language: German
Release Date: May 2, 2018
Martin Luther King: Bekannt als Bürgerrechtler verstand der charismatische Aktivist sich primär als angetrieben durch die Botschaft Jesu. In seinem aktuellen Buch geht Volker Schoßwald King als Prophet in der Gegenwart nach. Selbst fasziniert von Kings nachdenklicher Gradlinigkeit stellt er Bezüge...
Escaping the Delta
Robert Johnson and the Invention of the Blues
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2012
The life of blues legend Robert Johnson becomes the centerpiece for this innovative look at what many consider to be America's deepest and most influential music genre. Pivotal are the questions surrounding why Johnson was ignored by the core black audience of his time yet now celebrated as the greatest...
It's Been Beautiful
Soul! and Black Power Television
Language: English
Release Date: April 25, 2015
Soul! was where Stevie Wonder and Earth, Wind & Fire got funky, where Toni Morrison read from her debut novel, where James Baldwin and Nikki Giovanni discussed gender and power, and where Amiri Baraka and Stokely Carmichael enjoyed a sympathetic forum for their radical politics. Broadcast on public...
Shout, Sister, Shout!
The Untold Story of Rock-and-Roll Trailblazer Sister Rosetta Tharpe
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2007
Long before "women in rock" became a media catchphrase, Rosetta Tharpe proved in spectacular fashion that women could rock. Born in Cotton Plant, Arkansas, in 1915, she was gospel's first superstar and the preeminent crossover figure of its "golden age" (1945-1965). Everyone who...
Vice in the Barracks
Medicine, the Military and the Making of Colonial India, 1780-1868
Language: English
Release Date: March 26, 2014
Shortlisted for the 2014 Royal Historical Society’s Gladstone Prize and the 2014 Templer Award for the Best First Book by a New Author.
Sex and alcohol preoccupied European officers across India throughout the nineteenth century, with high rates of venereal disease and alcohol-related problems...
Foxy Forever
How to Be Foxy at Fifty, Sexy at Sixty, and Fabulous Forever
Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 2000
Noreen Wald imparts her wisdom on the benefits of growing older with humor and wit. She dispels the notion that the best years are over and gives advice that will help you achieve optimal happiness in reaching each milestone of maturity. Life has just gotten fuller and richer, and it's time to celebrate...
Wer bin ich? Bonhoeffer als Seelsorger und Zeitgenosse
Auf der Suche nach einer Identität
Language: German
Release Date: March 28, 2018
Dietrich Bonhoeffer, in der Kirche eine Ikone, in der deutschen Geschichte ein Widerstandskämpfer. In seinem aktuellen Buch betrachtet Volker Schoßwald den Theologen vor allem als Seelsorger. Dabei zwingt ihn die Realität der Bundesrepublik dazu, Vergangenheit und Gegenwart zu kontrastieren und...
Rebellen der Reformation
Glaube, Eifer, Terror
Language: German
Release Date: December 19, 2016
Dr. Volker Schoßwald, Jahrgang 1955, arbeitet als Pfarrer in Nürnberg. In seinem Buch "Rebellen der Reformation" geht er den Lebensgeschichten bekannter oder auch weniger bekannter Persönlichkeiten aus der Reformationszeit nach, in denen sich rebellische Motive wiederfinden. Ein Buch mit emotionaler Sympathie für alle, die gegen Unrecht und für die Wahrheit aufbegehren.
by William Morrison, Betsy Curtis, Ross Rocklynne
Language: English
Release Date: January 25, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: January 25, 2016
The incredibly amazing 9th volume of Golden Age Science Fiction! Featuring: The Protector, by Betsy Curtis Jaywalker, by Ross Rocklynne Picture Bride, by William Morrison Two Weeks in August, by Frank Robinson Queen of the Flaming Diamond, by Leroy Yerxa< No Shield from the Dead, by Gordon Dickson...
by Noreen Wald
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2016
Jake O’Hara and her colleagues are looking forward to a complimentary weekend in Manhattan’s swanky Plaza Hotel, the venue for the Greater New York Crime Writers’ Conference. The conference kicks off on St. Patrick’s Day, making the atmosphere a bit more festive—and chaotic—than usual....
The Politics of Cultural Differences
Social Change and Voter Mobilization Strategies in the Post-New Deal Period
Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 2009
How did Republicans manage to hold the White House through much of the past half century even as the Democratic Party held the hearts of most American voters? The authors of this groundbreaking study argue that they did so by doing what Democrats have also excelled at: triggering psychological mechanisms...
by Robert M. Wald
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2010
"Wald's book is clearly the first textbook on general relativity with a totally modern point of view; and it succeeds very well where others are only partially successful. The book includes full discussions of many problems of current interest which are not treated in any extant book, and all...
Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Seelsorge im religionslosen Zeitalter
Language: German
Release Date: December 11, 2017
Dietrich Bonhoeffer, ein großer Theologe und für viele auch eine Lichtgestalt. Er lehrte "Seelsorge" und er praktizierte sie auch in der Gefangenschaft. Lehre und Praxis stehen in einer Spannung zueinander. Volker Schoßwald setzt sich mit kritischer Sympathie mit dieser Facette Bonhoeffers...
Die Sergeant-Pepper-Generation
oder: Wie erfinde ich mich neu
Language: German
Release Date: December 27, 2017
Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band war ein explosives, Signale setzendes Album der Beatles. Zugleich verkörpert es wie kein anderes Kunstwerk das Lebensgefühl der jungen Generation. Sie brauchte eine neue Identität. Werte und Stile der älteren Generationen waren nicht nur überholt, sie waren...