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Malina: A Novel (Portico Paperbacks)
Ingeborg Bachmann, Mark Anderson
Holmes & Meier Publishers, 1999
brilliant novel on a desperate subject
Ingeborg Bachmann is a truly great and underappreciated writer, and this is her masterpiece. It is also the earliest novel I'm aware of on the subject of the lasting impact of child abuse in adult life, written at a time when the possibility of such an experience was ...
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Fashion for Men: An Illustrated History
Diana De Marly
Holmes & Meier Publishers, 1989
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Memoirs: Fifty Years of Political Reflection
Raymond Aron
Holmes & Meier Publishers, 1997
one of the least known great thinkers
Raymond Aron was unique among intellectuals: at once a journalist and scholar, he was a prolific writer on, and noted expert in, a huge aray of subjects from philosophy to military strategy to economics. As it turns out, his life was also fascinating: he was a ...
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The Royal Game & Other Stories
Stefan Zweig
Holmes & Meier Publishers, 2000
His best short stories.
If you are new to Zweig then this is for you. All the stories are very engaging and represent the style of writing of that era. I wish I could find more writers like Zweig, alas...
Beware of Pity is also very good. He is probably my favorite writer next to Witkiewicz. ...
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Under a Cruel Star: A Life in Prague 1941-1968
Heda Margolius Kovaly
Holmes & Meier Publishers, 1997
Its the story that plays in my head whenever tragedy befalls me & gives me the strength to get through it.
I read this about 6 years ago when it was assigned in one of my undergrad classes. There are enough online reviews for you to read about the plot and like. Rather I want to tell you how her voice has stuck with me. I think of her ability to see the slivering when ...
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Rescuers: Portraits of Moral Courage in the Holocaust
Gay Block, Malka Drucker
Holmes & Meier Publishers, 1992
A beautiful photo-interview essay on altruism...
This book is wonderfully formatted, arranged by geographic area of Europe. Each interview starts with black and white photos a person who helped Jews and other persecuted people during WWII. A personal narrative of that time in their lives follows, and each interview ...
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Three Paths to the Lake (Modern German Voices)
Ingeborg Bachmann
Holmes & Meier Publishers, 1989
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Nicholas II: The Interrupted Transition
Helene Carrere D'Encausse
Holmes & Meier Publishers, 2000
Textbook Read
Very informative book, but qualifies more as a textbook than nonfiction. Not an easy read, (keep a dictionary handy) but crammed full of essential and interesting information for all fans of Nicholas II. Would be a great reference resource for anyone researching ...
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The Thirtieth Year: Stories by Ingeborg Bachmann
Ingeborg Bachmann
Holmes & Meier Publishers, 1995
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Hitler's Death Camps
Konnilyn G. Feig
Holmes & Meier Publishers, 1981
Brutally Honest
I read this book when I was 16, after FINALLY watching a copy of "Schindler's List". From the moment I began the movie, I was entranced by the Holocaust and immediately wanted to read as much as I could about this dark time in Our History. As I expected, there isn't ...
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Gold & Spices: The Rise of Commerce in the Middle Ages
Jean Favier
Holmes & Meier Publishers, 1998
The evolution of the medieval capitalist
This is an excellent book for those of us seeking to understand the rise of commerce in the late Middle Ages. For many of us, it will also be an introduction to the diversity of commercial interests as well the degree of interdependence between the emerging centres of ...
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Conversion to Islam
Holmes & Meier Publishers, 1978
Poor and lacking
This book is in fact a collection of papers delivered at SOAS concerning the conversion to Islam in various societies and cultures. The book includes works by a number of 'scholars' in 'Islamic' studies.
Problem with the book though however, is that apart from the ...
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Distant Magnets: Expectations and Realities in the Immigrant Experience, 1840-1930 (Ellis Island)
Dirk Hoerder, Horst Rossler
Holmes & Meier Publishers, 1993
High quality academic work
For everybody interested in the images of America in Europe and immigrants expectations before arrival this is the most complet academic work available.
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Lenin (Biography)
Helene Carrere D'Encausse
Holmes & Meier Publishers, 2001
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