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Modernity in the late eighteenth century transformed all domains of European life -intellectual, industrial, and social. Not least affected was the experience of time itself: ever-accelerating change left people with briefer intervals of time in which to gather new experiences and adapt. In this provocative and erudite book Reinhart Koselleck, a distinguished philosopher of history, explores the concept of historical time by posing the question: what...
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Earworms MBT Rapid German Vol 1 – This is your personal audio language trainer with 200+ essential words and phrases anchored into your long-term memory with great music! This 1st of 3 volumes, is your survival kit for use when travelling abroad on a business trip or going on vacation.
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First published in 1910, Rilke's Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge is one the first great modernist novels, the account of poet-aspirant Brigge in his exploration of poetic individuality and his reflections on the experience of time as death approaches. This translation by Burton Pike is a reaction to overly stylized previous translations, and aims to capture not only the beauty but also the strangeness, the spirit, of Rilke's German.
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Start speaking German in minutes, and grasp the language, culture and customs in just minutes more with Upper Beginner German, Volume 2, a completely new way to learn German with ease! Upper Beginner German, Volume 2, will have you speaking with proper pronunciation from the very first lesson and arm you with cultural insight and other information to utterly shock and amaze your German friends.With each lesson, you will master a target phrase and...
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Start speaking German in minutes, and grasp the language, culture, and customs in just minutes more with Intermediate - German, a completely new way to learn German with ease! Intermediate - German will have you speaking with proper pronunciation from the very first lesson and arm you with cultural insight and other information to utterly shock and amaze your German friends.
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No Longer a German Beginner?
Welcome to Lower Intermediate German, Volume 2
Master German conversation the fun, fast and easy way! Speak with anyone, anywhere.
Start speaking German in minutes, and learn key vocabulary, phrases, and grammar in just minutes more with Lower Intermediate German. Our native German hosts break down all the sentences, grammar and more in a simple, easily understandable way!
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Ready to speak and understand German at an Intermediate level? Close your eyes and picture yourself arriving at an airport in Germany, walking out and finding yourself on a busy street. Imagine hearing the native conversations all around you.
This is the kind of German you learn here. Practical, everyday conversation. This Audiobook is great for Intermediates ready to go past basic phrases.
In fact, you start speaking in minutes. Our native German...
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For the first time, four German WWII pilots share their side of the story .Few perspectives epitomize the sheer drama and sacrifice of combat more perfectly than those of the fighter pilots of World War II. As romanticized as any soldier in history, the WWII fighter pilot was viewed as larger than life: a dashing soul waging war amongst the clouds. In the sixty-five-plus years since the Allied victory, stories of these pilots' heroics have never been...
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Finished with Introduction to German? Advance to Absolute Beginner German! Welcome to Absolute Beginner German, Volume 1 Before you take that trip to Germany, get a solid foundation of German first! Start speaking German in minutes and grasp the language, culture, and customs in just minutes more with Absolute Beginner German, a completely new way to learn German with ease! Absolute Beginner German will have you speaking with proper pronunciation...
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What role do metaphors play in philosophical language? Are they impediments to clear thinking and clear expression, rhetorical flourishes that may well help to make philosophy more accessible to a lay audience, but that ought ideally to be eradicated in the interests of terminological exactness? Or can the images used by philosophers tell us more about the hopes and cares, attitudes and indifferences that regulate an epoch than their carefully elaborated...
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Earworms MBT Rapid German Vol 2 – This is your personal audio language trainer with 200+ essential words and phrases anchored into your long-term memory with great music! This 2nd of 3 volumes, is your survival kit for use when travelling abroad on a business trip or vacation for more conversational items allowing you to talk about yourself, past, present and future, express opinions, chat and even flirt.
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The poems in this anthology represent a panorama of the main trends in the development of the poetry of the German-speaking people. Beginning with a minnesong of the early Middle Ages and a poem of the seventeenth century, the book then focuses on the Age of Goethe (1749-1832). Inspired by Goethe and his contemporaries, German poetry was able to develop according to its own genius and to advance along new lines that eventually led to the period of...
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Start speaking German in minutes, and learn key vocabulary, phrases, and grammar in just minutes more with Introduction to German - a completely new way to learn German with ease! Introduction to German will arm you with German and cultural insight to utterly shock and amaze your German friends and family, teachers, and colleagues. What you get in Introduction to German: 5 Basic Bootcamp lessons: dialog transcripts with translation, vocabulary, sample...
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In the spring and summer of 1938, a third-generation German Canadian took an unforgettable road trip in Europe. Franklin Wellington Wegenast drove through Austria, Italy, France, Luxembourg, and Germany. He stopped to talk to people along the way and offered rides to those requesting them. He listened to what his passengers had to say about their lives, the conditions they lived under, and their views on what was happening in Europe. Wegenast heard...
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The work of German cultural theorist and art historian Aby Warburg (1866–1929) has had a lasting effect on how we think about images. This book is the first in English to focus on his last project, the encyclopedic Atlas of Images: Mnemosyne. Begun in earnest in 1927, and left unfinished at the time of Warburg's death in 1929, the Atlas consisted of sixty-three large wooden panels covered with black cloth. On these panels Warburg carefully, intuitively...
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This superbly moving sequel reveals what happens when 18-year-old Patty Bergen leaves her Southern Bible-belt town for Paris. In a tender love affair with a Frenchman, she begins to overcome the abuse that ruined her childhood-and to understand her conflicting feelings of joy and anger.
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With its excellent line-for-line English translation on facing pages, this handy dual-language volume allows students of German language and literature an ideal way to read the 1922 classic based on events from the life of Buddha. The restless young Brahmin Siddhartha undertakes a spiritual journey that takes him from years of asceticism to long-sought enlightenment.
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Traditions and Transitions: Curricula for German Studies is a collection of essays by Canadian and international scholars on the topic of why and how the curriculum for post-secondary German studies should evolve. Its twenty chapters, written by international experts in the field of German as a foreign or second language, explore new perspectives on and orientations in the curriculum.
In light of shifts in the linguistic and intercultural needs of...
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The much-anticipated sequel to The German Aces Speak gives voice to four more of WWIIs most noteworthy German pilots.When The German Aces Speak published in 2011, Air & Space/Smithsonian magazine welcomed Colin Heatons and Anne-Marie Lewiss masterful command of interview-based narrative, writing, . . . what might have been numbing recitations of dogfights are instead vivid descriptions of life as a warrior during World War II. Indeed, it is this unexpected...
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