TwentiethCentury – Bücher, CDs, Blu-ray Discs und mehr, Seite 6

Paul Celan,
Letters to Gisèle

"Insightful and provocative letters by a great twentieth-century poet to his artist wife about life and, revealingly, his own writing. An intimate look at this canonical poet's process, mental health…

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Henry Roth
Call It Sleep

"One of the few genuinely distinguished novels written by a twentieth-century American."---Irving Howe, The New York Times Book Review (front page)When Henry Roth published his debut novel Call …

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Jr Richard Upsher Smith
The Catholic Holy Sites of the Mohwak Valley

"Since the nineteenth century, Catholics have believed that the Jesuit martyrs of the Mohawk Valley were put to death at a Mohawk village where the great shrine to them now stands at Auriesville, New…

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C. P. Cavafy,
The Selected Poems of Cavafy

C. P. Cavafy is one of the most singular and poignant voices of twentieth-century European poetry, conjuring a magical interior world through lyrical evocations of remembered passions, imagined monologues…

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James Joyce
Dubliners

James Joyce's first published book, which he wrote when he was still in his twenties, Dubliners is far removed from the bold experimentalism of his later work, but is essential for understanding the autho…

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Wladyslaw Reymont,
The Peasants

One of Poland's most engrossing twentieth-century epics, by the 1924 winner of the Nobel Prize for LiteratureIn the village of Lipce, scandal, romance and drama crackle in every hearth. Boryna, a widower …

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Edward Weston: The Flame of Recognition

Sixty years after its publication, The Flame of Recognition continues to offer unmatched insight into the mind, life, and work of a twentieth-century icon.This classic monograph, first issued as a hardcov…

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Samir Amin
Russia and the Long Transition from Capitalism to Socialism

"Out of early twentieth-century Russia came the world's first significant effort to build a modern revolutionary society. According to Marxist economist Samir Amin, the great upheaval that once produ…

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James A Grymes, Veronika Kusz
The Last Romantic in His Own Words

The Last Romantic in His Own Words presents the selected writings and interviews of Hungarian pianist, conductor, and composer Ernst von Dohnányi. These texts shed new light on Dohnányi's singular aesthet…

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Verity Harding
AI Needs You

A humanist manifesto for the age of AIArtificial intelligence may be the most transformative technology of our time. As AI's power grows, so does the need to figure out what-and who-this technology is rea…

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Xiaochang Li
Divination Engines

A revealing and surprising origin story, showing how attempts to render human speech and language computable led from the era of big data to today's AI.Since the advent of computers, society has fantasize…

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The Penguin Book of Polish Short Stories

The thirty-nine superb stories of The Penguin Book of Polish Short Stories run the length of the literal and imaginative creation of Poland, from 1918 (when Poland regained its independence after 123 year…

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Scott E. Brown
Speakeasies to Symphonies

James P. Johnson (1894-1955) is one of the most important figures in twentieth-century American music. However, few people other than scholars and serious fans know of his life and work. Rare jazz aficion…

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Scott E. Brown
Speakeasies to Symphonies

James P. Johnson (1894-1955) is one of the most important figures in twentieth-century American music. However, few people other than scholars and serious fans know of his life and work. Rare jazz aficion…

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Eugene R. Schlesinger
Salvation in Henri De Lubac

This study provides a compelling account of the major works of Henri de Lubac, one of the most influential theologians of the twentieth century, and argues that soteriology provides a lens through which t…

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Carol Armstrong
The Matter of Still Life

How does still life "matter"? Through two essays based on Carol Armstrong's 2020 Franklin D. Murphy Lectures at the University of Kansas, this project brings into focus material thought as it re…

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Larry Mcmurtry
The Last Picture Show

Whereas Larry McMurtry's Lonesome Dove is universally hailed as the greatest novel of the Old West, The Last Picture Show is increasingly recognized as a standard bearer of contemporary Western fiction. F…

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Gabriele Tergit,
Effingers

Three generations of German Jewish family undergo the tumult, upheaval, and brutality of nineteenth- and twentieth-century history in this panoramic and skillfully nuanced family drama, rich with gossip a…

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Jennifer Banning Tomás
Reclaiming Clio

Women's history traveled a long and fascinating path before it became a respected and recognized academic field in twentieth-century America. This book explores the field's development as a multiracial an…

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Laurence Roth
Unpacking My Father's Bookstore

Unpacking My Father's Bookstore brings to life the history of J. Roth / Bookseller of Fine & Scholarly Judaica, which was a microcosm of the Los Angeles Jewish community from 1966 to 1994 and one of t…

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