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... And Heaven Shed No Tears (Shoah Studies)
$25.36
Henry Herzog survived the liquidation of the Rzeszow ghetto in Poland and endured terrible hardships in forced labor camps. He documents the increasing severity of Nazi rule in Rzeszow and the complicity of the Jewish council (the Judenrat) and Jewish police in the round-ups for deportation to the B..
42nd Street (Wisconsin / Warner Bros. Screenplays)
$10.28
This screenplay of 42nd Street, along with Rocco Fumento's thorough and engrossing introduction, takes the reader behind the scenes to see how the Warners studio took a dismal novel and, working within severe financial constraints brought on by the Great Depression, turned out a smash musical hit.42..
A Childhood under Hitler and Stalin: Memoirs of a ...
$12.33
A bestseller in Germany, Michael Wieck’s account of his childhood in Königsberg recalls a German city obliterated by fire-bombing during the Second World War. As the child of a Jewish mother and Gentile father, Wieck was persecuted first as a "certified Jew" by the Nazis, then as a German by the Rus..
A Duel of Giants: Bismarck, Napoleon III, and the ...
$12.51
Combining impeccable scholarship and literary elegance, David Wetzel depicts the drama of machinations and passions that exploded in a war that forever changed the face of European history. Author: Wetzel, David Publisher: University of Wisconsin Press Binding: Hardcover Language: English ISBN-10: 0..
A Fiddler's Tale: How Hollywood and Vivaldi Discov...
$18.54
This fascinating memoir, written by one of the greatest American violinists of the twentieth century, recounts an extraordinary life in music.Once called by the New York Times "a violinist's violinist and a musician's musician," Louis Kaufman was born in 1905 in Portland, Oregon. He studied violin w..
A History of Fascism, 1914-1945
$17.90
“A History of Fascism is an invaluable sourcebook, offering a rare combination of detailed information and thoughtful analysis. It is a masterpiece of comparative history, for the comparisons enhance our understanding of each part of the whole. The term ‘fascist,’ used so freely these days as a pejo..
A History of Fascism, 19141945
$57.36
“A History of Fascism is an invaluable sourcebook, offering a rare combination of detailed information and thoughtful analysis. It is a masterpiece of comparative history, for the comparisons enhance our understanding of each part of the whole. The term ‘fascist,’ used so freely these days as a pejo..
A History of the French New Wave Cinema (Wisconsin...
$17.89
The French New Wave cinema is arguably the most fascinating of all film movements, famous for its exuberance, daring, and avant-garde techniques. A History of the French New Wave Cinema offers a fresh look at the social, economic, and aesthetic mechanisms that shaped French film in the 1950s, as wel..
A Muslim American Slave: The Life of Omar Ibn Said...
$16.97
Born to a wealthy family in West Africa around 1770, Omar Ibn Said was abducted and sold into slavery in the United States, where he came to the attention of a prominent North Carolina family after filling “the walls of his room with piteous petitions to be released, all written in the Arabic langua..
A Passion to Preserve: Gay Men as Keepers of Cultu...
$30.39
From large cities to rural communities, gay men have long been impassioned pioneers as keepers of culture: rescuing and restoring decrepit buildings, revitalizing blighted neighborhoods, saving artifacts and documents of historical significance. A Passion to Preserve explores this authentic and comp..
A Promise at Sobibór: A Jewish Boys Story of Revo...
$14.64
Review“This testimony of a survivor of the Sobibór extermination camp is extraordinarily important because of the circumstances that it recounts. But it is really the personality of the author and his narrative talent that make it very special.”-Jan T. Gross, Princeton University"When a prisoner upr..
African art & leadership
$18.36
African art & leadership Author: Douglas Fraser Publisher: University of Wisconsin Press Binding: Hardcover Language: English ISBN-10: 0299058204 ISBN-13: 9780299058203..
Alcoholics Anonymous As A Mutual-Help: A Study In ...
$14.42
Alcoholics Anonymous (AA) has an estimated worldwide membership of two million. This collaborative study offers the first comprehensive look at AA as a social movement, a belief system, a model for small group interactions, and a truly international phenomenon. The international success of AA is evi..
Aldo Leopold: His Life and Work
$16.64
This biography of Aldo Leopold follows him from his childhood as a precocious naturalist to his profoundly influential role in the development of conservation and modern environmentalism in the United States. This edition includes a new preface by author Curt Meine and an appreciation by acclaimed K..
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An Intellectual History of Psychology
$9.92
An Intellectual History of Psychology, already a classic in its field, is now available in a concise new third edition. It presents psychological ideas as part of a greater web of thinking throughout history about the essentials of human nature, interwoven with ideas from philosophy, science, religi..
An Underground Life: Memoirs of a Gay Jew in Nazi ...
$15.87
That a Jew living in Nazi Berlin survived the Holocaust at all is surprising. That he was a homosexual and a teenage leader in the resistance and yet survived is amazing. But that he endured the ongoing horror with an open heart, with love and without vitriol, and has written about it so beautifully..
An Underground Life: Memoirs of a Gay Jew in Nazi ...
$10.79
That a Jew living in Nazi Berlin survived the Holocaust at all is surprising. That he was a homosexual and a teenage leader in the resistance and yet survived is amazing. But that he endured the ongoing horror with an open heart, with love and without vitriol, and has written about it so beautifully..
Around the Shores of Lake Michigan: A Guide to His...
$14.14
This superbly organized guide to the 1,600-mile shoreline of Lake Michigan describes 182 historical sites and points of interest. Generously illustrated, it includes historical sketches, keys to recreation, and a large fold-out planner map. Author: Bogue, Margaret Beattie Publisher: University of Wi..
Around the Shores of Lake Superior: A Guide to His...
$24.74
Around the Shores of Lake Superior is an ideal trip planner and a unique guide to the region. Margaret Beattie Bogue evokes the richness of local history and highlights hundreds of landmarks and points of interest that surround the lake. Grand Portage, Fort William Historical Park, the Agawa Canyon ..
Autobiography of My Hungers (Living Out: Gay and L...
$8.43
Rigoberto González, author of the critically acclaimed memoir Butterfly Boy: Memories of a Chicano Mariposa, takes a second piercing look at his past through a startling new lens: hunger. The need for sustenance originating in childhood poverty, the adolescent emotional need for solace and comfort, ..
Beijing: A Novel
$8.39
Escaping his ghosts, AIDS widower David Masiello accepts a one-year position at a Western medical clinic in Beijing. Lonely but excited, he sets out to explore the city-both its bustling street life and its clandestine gay subculture.David chronicles his adventures in China as he wrestles with cultu..
Being Colonized: The Kuba Experience in Rural Cong...
$36.87
What was it like to be colonized by foreigners Highlighting a region in central Congo, in the center of sub-Saharan Africa, Being Colonized places Africans at the heart of the story. In a richly textured history that will appeal to general readers and students as well as to scholars, the distinguis..
Biomedicine & Alternative Healing Systems: Issues ...
$11.07
Examining medical pluralism in the United States from the Revolutionary War period through the end of the twentieth century, Hans Baer brings together in one convenient reference a vast array of information on healing systems as diverse as Christian Science, osteopathy, acupuncture, evangelical fait..
Black Moses: The Story of Marcus Garvey and the Un...
$11.89
In the early twentieth century, Marcus Garvey sowed the seeds of a new black pride and determination. Attacked by the black intelligentsia and ridiculed by the white press, this Jamaican immigrant astonished all with his black nationalist rhetoric. In just four years, he built the Universal Negro Im..
Blue Collar Aristocrats: Life-Styles at a Working-...
$11.11
“LeMasters’ book is a valuable and popularly written source of information on the attitudes of working class men and women. Highly recommended.”-Library JournalBlue-Collar Aristocrats is a major statement about a group of Americans too little understood and too long ignored by by the country's decis..