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  • On the Ruins of Babel

    Architectural Metaphor in German Thought

    Series series Signale: Modern German Letters, Cultures, and Thought
    The eighteenth century struggled to define architecture as either an art or a science—the image of the architect as a grand figure who synthesizes all other disciplines within a single master plan emerged from this discourse. Immanuel Kant and Johann Wolfgang Goethe described the architect as their equal, a genius with godlike creativity. For writers from Descartes to Freud, architectural ... Read more

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  • Walking in the Algarve

    32 walks in the south of Portugal including Serra de Monchique and Costa Vicentina

    Portugal's Algarve is one of Europe's most rewarding winter walking destinations, with a mild climate, dramatic Atlantic coastlines and a surprisingly varied landscape that stretches far beyond its famous beaches. From the rugged cliffs and golden coves of the south coast to the forested hills of the Serra de Monchique and the wild, unspoilt shores of the Costa Vicentina, this is a region that ... Read more

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  • The Art of Maneuver

    Maneuver Warfare Theory and Airland Battle

    The Art of Maneuver shows how true maneuver-warfare theory has been applied in campaigns throughout history. With a genius for apt analogy the author shows how our obsession with fighting and winning set-piece battles causes us to overlook an enemy’s true vulnerabilities. But as low-intensity conflicts promise to become the dominant warfare of the future, the importance of maneuver in attacking an ... Read more

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  • Crow and Firefly

    Series series Crow and Firefly and Crow and Crown
    The laws of man and nature are harsh and decisive: Unwed mothers are not allowed to raise their children, and shapehifters must wed and consummate the marriage to satisfy the magic that would otherwise render them beasts forever upon the morning of their twenty-third birthday.With the life of his sister and newborn nephew at stake, shapeshifter Ari is trapped in a castle and compelled to accept a ... Read more

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  • Shoe Dog

    A Memoir by the Creator of Nike

    by Phil Knight ...
    In this instant and tenacious New York Times bestseller, Nike founder and board chairman Phil Knight “offers a rare and revealing look at the notoriously media-shy man behind the swoosh” (Booklist, starred review), illuminating his company’s early days as an intrepid start-up and its evolution into one of the world’s most iconic, game-changing, and profitable brands.Bill Gates named Shoe Dog one ... Read more

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  • Pandora’s Box

    A History of the First World War

    Translated by Patrick Camiller ...
    Winner of the Norman B. Tomlinson, Jr. Prize“The best large-scale synthesis in any language of what we currently know and understand about this multidimensional, cataclysmic conflict.”—Richard J. Evans, Times Literary SupplementIn this monumental history of the First World War, Germany’s leading historian of the period offers a dramatic account of its origins, course, and consequences. Jörn ... Read more

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  • Piano - Guided Sight-Reading

    Sight-reading is a skill which offers a student access to all music literature; a skill through which he can acquaint himself with any composition, unaided by a teacher. Nor can the ability to sight-read be lost. Once musical notation has become a living picture for the student, it will remain so, and he will at any time afterward be able to perform any music whether he practices regularly or not. ... Read more

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  • The Principles of War for the Information Age

    The crisis is upon us: We have no viable doctrine for tomorrow's wars. Now that the world has entered the information age, principles that have served to enlighten the art of war no longer work. Born of agrarian times and honed during the industrial age, the classical principles of war are, in large part, hopelessly outdated. Radical change is needed now. The Principles of War for the Information ... Read more

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  • Chinese Sympathies

    Media, Missionaries, and World Literature from Marco Polo to Goethe

    Series series Signale: Modern German Letters, Cultures, and Thought
    Chinese Sympathies examines how Europeans—German-speaking writers and thinkers in particular—identified with Chinese intellectual and literary traditions following the circulation of Marco Polo's Travels**.** This sense of affinity expanded and deepened, Daniel Leonhard Purdy shows, as generations of Jesuit missionaries, baroque encyclopedists, Enlightenment moralists, and translators established ... Read more

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  • Translation and Diaspora

    The Role of Translation in Émigré Communities in the USA

    Series series Routledge Advances in Translation and Interpreting Studies
    The collective volume, Translation and Diaspora, explores for the first time in a systematic way diasporic communities as a distinct site of translational activity and highlights how fundamental translational activity has been to the development of diasporas in the USA.Contrary to the quite extensive research on translation and migration, Translation and Diaspora with its exploration of ... Read more

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  • Leonhard Euler

    Mathematical Genius in the Enlightenment

    An acclaimed biography of the Enlightenment's greatest mathematicianThis is the first full-scale biography of Leonhard Euler (1707–83), one of the greatest mathematicians and theoretical physicists of all time. In this comprehensive and authoritative account, Ronald Calinger connects the story of Euler's eventful life to the astonishing achievements that place him in the company of Archimedes, ... Read more

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  • Rudolph

    Crotchety and cranky Rudy—aka Santa—is in a foul mood every Christmas season. He talks to lots of children and even more parents but not with guys looking for dates. Only when his best helper makes him a very special gift does he meet someone to his liking. Kind of. Because that someone is made of flour and spices—and to impress him, Rudy seriously has to work on his seduction skills. ... Read more

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