Not the Germans Alone: A Son's Search for the Truth of Vichy
 Seven year old hiddeen in Vichy France during WW II: How does it feel to be left alone as a seven year old. Your mother is taken by the authorities and your father is away in an interment camp and you are left in a cherry orchard in southern France. [... more]
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The Man with the Black Coat: Russia's Literature of the ...
Fragments of Russia's Literature of the Absurd: The key to understanding this book, I think, lies in starting with the subtitle: "Russia's Literature of the Absurd." Kharms and Vvedensky are pen names of Russian/Soviet writers who are known in [... more]
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The King David Report (European Classics)
Truth will prevail: This is another masterpiece from Stefan Heym, the pseudonym for Helmut Flieg. The author is an East German/American Jewish writer, known for his controversial political standing, and as an advocate of "real socialism" he has [... more]
$19.00
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Anton Chekhov's Life and Thought: Selected Letters and ...
The Best Source of Information on Chekhov's Life and Art: There are many biographies of Chekhov, including the new one by Rayfield, but this edition of the letters is the best source of the writer's life and thought. Long out of print, it was wise of [... more]
$39.95
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Globalisation and Legal Theory
Book Description: This work brings together eight linked essays which make the case for a revival of general jurisprudence in response to the challenges of globalisation, and explores how far the heritage of Anglo-American jurisprudence and comparative [... more]
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Not the Germans Alone: A Son's Search for the Truth of ...
Seven year old hiddeen in Vichy France during WW II: How does it feel to be left alone as a seven year old. Your mother is taken by the authorities and your father is away in an interment camp and you are left in a cherry orchard in southern France. [... more]
$15.95
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Closely Watched Trains (European Classics)
Heroism of common people: This is a tale about heroism of ordinary people, not about epic feats. You won't find here but common people, and that's what makes the tale so touching and realistic. The book is beautiful and is beautifully written, with a [... more]
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The First Circle (European Classics)
AN ALMOST GREAT BOOK: "The First Circle" is a deeep look into the hearts of people subject to near-absolute power. There is a quality of Kafka more than Tolstoy. The power is so distant. But then Solzhenitsyn takes himself and us into the mind [... more]
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Typee: A Peep at Polynesian Life (Melville)
Contaminating contact with the white man: 1841. A young man of 23 is looking for adventure, he signs a contract on a New England whaler and travels to the South Pacific. Life on the ship is not what he expected, the captain is a tyrant, the life is a [... more]
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Heraclitus Seminar (SPEP)
needless to say, it was all "Greek" to me...: I must admit from the outset that my familiarity with Heidegger's philosophy, not to mention Fink's (a philosopher I'd never heard of), is not up to par with my fellow commentators (this is a [... more]
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The Visible and the Invisible (SPEP)
Merleau-Ponty's Last Work: The Visible and the Invisible is the last work of Maurice Merleau-Ponty, left unfinished by his untimely death. (Does anyone really have a timely death?) In this volume from Northwestern University Press, the unfinished text is [... more]
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The One-Handed Pianist and Other Stories
Marvelous!: I heard Stavans read several stories in Washington, D.C. He was marvelous. His stories are mysterious, mystical. They take the reader through unexpected paths. He reminds me of the Hassidic masters. I loved these stories: I loved these [... more]
$14.95
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