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The “German question” haunts the modern world: How could so civilized a nation be responsible for the greatest horror in Western history? In this unusual fusion of personal memoir and history, the celebrated scholar Fritz Stern refracts the question through the prism of his own life. Born in the Weimar Republic, exposed to five years of National Socialism before being forced into exile in 1938 in America, he... (more)

Dreams and Delusions: The Drama of German History

Dreams and Delusions: The Drama of German History

by Fritz Richard Stern

This highly praised collection of essays by eminent historian Fritz Stern ponders the monumental promise and catastrophe of twentieth-century German history.

Business As Unusual: My Entrepreneurial Journey, Profits With Principles

Business As Unusual: My Entrepreneurial Journey, Profits With Principles

by Anita Roddick

Business as Unusual charts the progress of Roddick and her company The Body Shop through the last decade.

The Promise of the New South: Life after Reconstruction

The Promise of the New South: Life after Reconstruction

by Edward L. Ayers

At a public picnic in the South in the 1890s, a young man paid five cents for his first chance to hear the revolutionary Edison talking machine. He eagerly listened as the soundman placed the needle down, only to find that through the tubes he held to his ears came the chilling sounds of a lynching. In this story, with its blend of new technology and old hatreds, genteel picnic and mob violence, Edward Ayers... (more)

The Varieties of History: From Voltaire to the Present (Vintage)

The Varieties of History: From Voltaire to the Present (Vintage)

The Encyclopedia of New York City

by Kenneth T. Jackson, New-York Historical Society

This authoritative and entertaining one-volume encyclopedia includes: -thousands of entries, from abolitionism to Zabar`s; -hundreds of illustrations, maps, and tables; -full coverage of all five boroughs of the city, from prehistory to the present day. .

Prisoners of Hope: The Story of Our Captivity and Freedom in Afghanistan

Prisoners of Hope: The Story of Our Captivity and Freedom in Afghanistan

by Dayna Curry

The gripping and inspiring story of two extraordinary women--from their imprisonment by the Taliban to their rescue by U.S. Special Forces. When Dayna Curry and Heather Mercer arrived in Afghanistan, they had come to help bring a better life and a little hope to some of the poorest and most oppressed people in the world. Within a few months, their lives were thrown into chaos as they became pawns in historic... (more)

Love And War In La Jolla

by Jennifer Argent

Besides a good name, Erin Bladder has it all: A great job at a luxury hotel in La Jolla, a boyfriend she adores, single girlfriends to hang out with and a loving family. But in the course of just two days, everything good in her life begins to unravel. Throughout her summer in La Jolla, Erin tries to retain her sanity while planning her best friend’s wedding, trying to piece together her parents’ marriage, pulling... (more)

Einstein's German World

by Fritz Richard Stern

The French political philosopher Raymond Aron once observed that the twentieth century "could have been Germany's century." In 1900, the country was Europe's preeminent power, its material strength and strident militaristic ethos apparently balanced by a vital culture and extraordinary scientific achievement. It was poised to achieve greatness. In Einstein's German World, the eminent historian Fritz Stern... (more)

The Barbarians are Coming

by David Wong Louie

The award-winning author of Pangs of Love triumphs with "a work that manages to be consistently funny, infinitely sad, and surprisingly exhilarating... truly memorable." ( Newsday )

When Kids Can't Read: What Teachers Can Do: A Guide for Teachers 6-12

When Kids Can't Read: What Teachers Can Do: A Guide for Teachers 6-12

by G. Kylene Beers

For Kylene Beers, the question of what to do when kids can't read surfaced abruptly in 1979 when she began teaching. That year, she discovered that some of the students in her seventh-grade language arts classes could pronounce all the words, but couldn't make any sense of the text.

The Sonoma Valley Story: Pages Through the AgesRobert M. Lynch

The Sonoma Valley Story: Pages Through the Ages

by Robert M. Lynch

The Failure of Illiberalism

by Fritz Richard Stern

Fritz Stern argues that the best way to describe the character of Imperial Germany after 1878 is "illiberal", which describes the German commitment in mind and policy against any further concession to democracy. Stern argues that from Bismarck to the end of World War II, German society embraced the impulse toward totalitarianism that this illiberal stance fostered. He also examines the efforts of German scholars... (more)

Rhetoric Retold: Regendering the Tradition from Antiquity Through the Renaissance

Rhetoric Retold: Regendering the Tradition from Antiquity Through the Renaissance

by Cheryl Glenn

After explaining how and why women have been excluded from the rhetorical tradition from antiquity through the Renaissance, Cheryl Glenn provides the opportunity for Sappho, Aspasia, Diotima, Hortensia, Fulvia, Julian of Norwich, Margery Kempe, Margaret More Roper, Anne Askew, and Elizabeth I to speak with equal authority and as eloquently as Plato, Aristotle, Cicero, and Augustine. Her aim is nothing less than... (more)

A Rhetoric for Writing Teachers

by Daniel Anderson, Erika Lindemann

From answering the question "Why teach writing?" to offering guidance in managing group work and responding to assignments, A Rhetoric for Writing Teachers provides a comprehensive introduction to the teaching of writing. Now in a fourth edition, this remarkably successful book features a new chapter by Daniel Anderson on teaching with computers and adds updated material on invention, intellectual development, and... (more)

BLOOD, TOIL, TEARS AND SWEAT

Steppin' Out: New York Nightlife and the Transformation of American Culture

Steppin' Out: New York Nightlife and the Transformation of American Culture

by Lewis A. Erenberg

The evolution of New York nightlife from the Gay Nineties through the Jazz Age was, as Lewis A. Erenberg shows, both symbol and catalyst of America's transition out of the Victorian period. Cabaret culture led the way to new styles of behavior and consumption, dissolving conventional barriers between classes, races, the sexes—even between life and art. A fabulous era of chorus girls, jazz players, lobster palaces,... (more)

Unspoken: A Rhetoric of Silence

by Cheryl Glenn

In our talkative Western culture, speech is synonymous with authority and influence while silence is frequently misheard as passive agreement when it often signifies much more. In her groundbreaking exploration of silence as a significant rhetorical art, Cheryl Glenn articulates the ways in which tactical silence can be as expressive and strategic an instrument of human communication as speech itself. Drawing... (more)

Border Talk: Writing and Knowing in the Two-Year College

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Five Germanys I Have Known

by Fritz Richard Stern

Dreams and Delusions: The Drama of German History

by Fritz Richard Stern

Business As Unusual: My Entrepreneurial Journey, Profits With Principles

by Anita Roddick

The Promise of the New South: Life after Reconstruction

by Edward L. Ayers

The Varieties of History: From Voltaire to the Present (Vintage)

The Encyclopedia of New York City

by Kenneth T. Jackson, New-York Historical Society

Prisoners of Hope: The Story of Our Captivity and Freedom in Afghanistan

by Dayna Curry

Love And War In La Jolla

by Jennifer Argent

Einstein's German World

by Fritz Richard Stern

The Barbarians are Coming

by David Wong Louie

When Kids Can't Read: What Teachers Can Do: A Guide for Teachers 6-12

by G. Kylene Beers

The Sonoma Valley Story: Pages Through the Ages

by Robert M. Lynch

The Failure of Illiberalism

by Fritz Richard Stern

Rhetoric Retold: Regendering the Tradition from Antiquity Through the Renaissance

by Cheryl Glenn

A Rhetoric for Writing Teachers

by Daniel Anderson, Erika Lindemann

BLOOD, TOIL, TEARS AND SWEAT

Steppin' Out: New York Nightlife and the Transformation of American Culture

by Lewis A. Erenberg

Unspoken: A Rhetoric of Silence

by Cheryl Glenn

Border Talk: Writing and Knowing in the Two-Year College

by Howard B. Tinberg

Tensions and Triumphs in the Early Years of Teaching: Real-world Findings and Advice For Supporting New Teachers

by Susi Long, Ami Abramson, April Boone, Carly Borchelt, Robbie Kalish, Erin Miller, Julie Parks, Carmen Tisdale