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Jobis the tale of Mendel Singer, a pious, destitute Eastern-European Jew and children’s Torah teacher whose faith is tested at every turn. His youngest son seems to be incurably disabled, one of his older sons joins the Russian Army, the other deserts to America, and his daughter is running around w...
Author
Joseph Roth
Binding
Paperback
Pages
211
Publisher
Archipelago
ISBN #
0982624603
EAN Code
9780982624609
ISBN #
7
Hyperion is a novel of stirring lyricism, philosophical sublimity, and enduring influence. It stands among Hölderlin’s most extraordinary achievements. A Greek hermit recounts the pivotal phases of his life, from his discovery of the vanished glory of antiquity, through his encounter with his belove...
Author
Friedrich Hölderlin
Binding
Paperback
Pages
236
Publisher
Archipelago
ISBN #
0979333024
EAN Code
9780979333026
ISBN #
10
A moving account by Auma Obama about her life in Africa and Europe, and her relationship with her brother, Barack Obama.While her younger brother Barack grew up in the U.S. and Indonesia, Auma Obama's childhood played out at the other end of the world in a remote village in Kenya, the birthplace of ...
Author
Auma Obama
Binding
Hardcover
Pages
352
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
ISBN #
1250010055
EAN Code
9781250010056
ISBN #
9
“What distinguishes scientists, in your eyes?”—Stefan Klein“First and foremost, curiosity.”—Roald Hoffmann, Nobel Prize–winning chemistWhen Stefan Klein, an acclaimed journalist, sits down to talk with 18 of the world’s leading scientists, he finds they’re driven by, above all, curiosity. When they ...
Author
Stefan Klein
Binding
Paperback
Pages
288
Publisher
The Experiment
ISBN #
1615190597
EAN Code
9781615190591
ISBN #
6
The chemical pollution that irrevocably damages today's environment is, although many would like us to believe otherwise, the legacy of conscious choices made long ago. During the years before and just after World War II, discoveries like leaded gasoline and DDT came to market, creating new hazards ...
Author
Benjamin Ross, Steven Amter
Binding
Paperback
Pages
240
Publisher
Oxford University Press
ISBN #
0199930961
EAN Code
9780199930968
ISBN #
5
Living as a carpenter who had spent time working in a watch factory, Georg Elser was just an ordinary member of society living in Munich. That is, however, until he took it upon himself to attempt to assassinate the Führer, Adolph Hitler. Being a common man who opposed the Nazi regime, Elser took hi...
Author
Helmut Ortner
Binding
Paperback
Pages
192
Publisher
Skyhorse Publishing
ISBN #
1510706526
EAN Code
9781510706521
ISBN #
4
More than five decades have passed since Jane Jacobs wrote her classic The Death and Life of Great American Cities, and since a front page headline in the New York Times read, "Cars Choking Cities as 'Urban Sprawl' Takes Over." Yet sprawl persists, and not by mistake. It happens for a reason.As an a...
Author
Benjamin Ross
Binding
Hardcover
Pages
256
Publisher
Oxford University Press
ISBN #
0199360146
EAN Code
9780199360147
ISBN #
1
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