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  • Profits and Persecution

    German Big Business in the Nazi Economy and the Holocaust

    by Peter Hayes ...
    What role did German big business play in the persecution of European Jews during the Holocaust? What were its motivations? And how did it respond to changing social and economic circumstances after the war? Profits and Persecution examines how the leaders of Germany's largest industrial and financial enterprises played a key part in the catastrophes and crimes of their nation in the first half of ... Read more

    $24.99 USD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Why?

    Explaining the Holocaust

    by Peter Hayes ...
    **Featured in the PBS documentary, "The US and the Holocaust" by Ken Burns, Lynn Novick and Sarah Botstein"Superbly written and researched, synthesizing the classics while digging deep into a vast repository of primary sources." —Josef Joffe, Wall Street Journal**Why? explores one of the most tragic events in human history by addressing eight of the most commonly asked questions about the ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Peace and Security in Northeast Asia

    Nuclear Issue and the Korean Peninsula

    by Peter Hayes, Young Whan Kihl ...
    This work provides an analysis of North Korea's nuclear controversy from a variety of perspectives, including: nuclear reactor technology and technology transfer; economic sanctions and incentives; confidence-building measures; environmental challenges; and the views of Korea and the major powers. ... Read more

    $48.99 USD

  • Space Power Interests

    by Peter Hayes ...
    In this unique volume, an international cast of leading scholars from several disciplines offers a comprehensive assessment of the current status of space-based weaponry. Regional and technical experts offer their analysis of the major powers' special interests in space and also examine the broader issues of ICBM proliferation, testing, monitoring, and verification as well as possible ... Read more

    $62.99 USD

  • Audiobook

    Profits and Persecution

    German Big Business in the Nazi Economy and the Holocaust

    by Peter Hayes ...
    Narrated by Todd McLaren ...

    Unabridged

    8 hours 5 min

    What role did German big business play in the persecution of European Jews during the Holocaust? What were its motivations? And how did it respond to changing social and economic circumstances after the war? Profits and Persecution examines how the leaders of Germany's largest industrial and financial enterprises played a key part in the catastrophes and crimes of their nation in the first half of ... Read more

    $18.99 USD

    Also available as: eBook

    Also available as: eBook

  • The Politics of American Foreign Policy

    How Ideology Divides Liberals and Conservatives over Foreign Affairs

    by Peter Hays Gries ...
    This "eye-opening analysis" explains how and why America's culture wars and partisan divide have led to dysfunctional US policy abroad ( The Atlantic).In this provocative book, Peter Gries challenges the view that partisan elites on Capitol Hill are out of touch with a moderate American public. Dissecting a new national survey, Gries shows how ideology powerfully divides Main Street over both ... Read more

    $20.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Audiobook

    Why?

    Explaining the Holocaust

    by Peter Hayes ...
    Narrated by Don Hagen ...

    Unabridged

    13 hours 21 min

    Featured in the PBS documentary The US and the Holocaust by Ken Burns, Lynn Novick, and Sarah BotsteinA bold new exploration that answers the most commonly asked questions about the Holocaust.Despite the outpouring of books, movies, museums, memorials, and courses devoted to the Holocaust, a coherent explanation of why such ghastly carnage erupted from the heart of civilized Europe in the ... Read more

    $39.99 USD

    Also available as: eBook

    Also available as: eBook

  • Inventing ELIZA

    How the First Chatbot Shaped the Future of AI

    by David M. Berry, Sarah Ciston, Anthony C. Hay, Mark C. Marino, Peter Millican ...
    Series series Software Studies
    How the original ELIZA chatbot transformed ideas about AI and society’s response to them.As we reach the 60th anniversary of ELIZA’s public debut, Inventing ELIZA offers the first comprehensive critical analysis of Joseph Weizenbaum’s groundbreaking chatbot system through the lens of critical code studies. Drawing on extensive archival research at MIT, Stanford, and UCLA, this book presents the ... Read more

    $25.99 USD

  • Adoption in Japan

    Comparing Policies for Children in Need

    by Peter Hayes, Toshie Habu ...
    Series series Routledge Contemporary Japan Series
    The first book-length study of adoption in Japan, this impressive work tackles the innovative and sometimes controversial subject of the policies of adoption agencies in Japan. The book places special adoption in the context of a liberal reformist agenda that has challenged traditional concepts of the family through the efforts to place children with difficult family backgrounds, including mixed ... Read more

    $65.99 USD

  • Wharton, Hemingway, and the Advent of Modernism

    by Parley Ann Boswell, Dustin Faulstick, Anna Green, Peter Hays, Jennifer Haytock, Caroline Hellman, Ellen Andrews Knodt, Cecilia Macheski, Milena Radeva, Sirpa Salenius, Linda Wagner-Martin ...
    Wharton, Hemingway, and the Advent of Modernism is the first book to examine the connections linking two major American writers of the twentieth century, Edith Wharton and Ernest Hemingway. In twelve critical essays, accompanied by a foreword from Wharton scholar Laura Rattray and a critical introduction by volume editor Lisa Tyler, contributors reveal the writers’ overlapping contexts, interests, ... Read more

    Was $44.99 USD Now $18.99 USD

  • Theory of Modern Drama

    A Critical Edition

    by Peter Szondi ...
    Translated by Michael Hays ...
    Theory of the Modern Drama is a brilliant analysis of the emergence and development of modern drama from the Renaissance to the present day. Szondi shows how the rise of modern drama was linked to broader social processes and expressed some of the beliefs characteristic of early modern Europe. This was manifested in the convention that form was ahistorical and it simply required the appropriate ... Read more

    $16.00 USD

  • Reading Hemingway’s The Old Man and the Sea

    Glossary and Commentary

    by Sylvester, Larry Grimes, Peter Hays ...
    Series series Reading Hemingway
    The Old Man and the Sea is a deceptively simple work. An old man goes fishing. He catches a giant marlin after much struggle. Sharks attack and destroy the fish. The old man is left with the bare bones of the fish—a Monday morning “fish story.” But much lies beneath the surface. The action is condensed and presented in carefully crafted images, in words and details selected because of their ... Read more

    $28.49 USD or Free with Kobo Plus