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  • Ghost Dance in Berlin

    A Rhapsody in Gray

    by Peter Wortsman ...
    Every great city is a restless work in progress, but nowhere is the urban impulse more in flux than in Berlin, that sprawling metropolis located on the fault line of history. A short-lived fever-dream of modernity in the Roaring Twenties, redubbed Germania and primped up into the megalomaniac fantasy of a Thousand-Year Reichstadt in the Thirties, reduced in 1945 to a divided rubble heap, ... Read more

    $18.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • My Mother and Me: Making It in New York After Making It Out of Berlin and Beirut

    by Peter Schrag ...
    In this witty and insightful memoir, Peter Schrag meditates on the life of his mother, Ilse, who left Germany in 1933 to marry a German Jewish doctor in Lebanon. She left that marriage after five years (1933-1938) and made her way to New York City with her infant son. Together, mother and son built a new life.At once a rumination on the problems a Jewish refugee family faces in difficult times, an ... Read more

    $12.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Hidden Addiction

    Behind Shoplifting and Other Self-Defeating Behaviors

    by Peter Berlin ...
    The HIDDEN ADDICTION Behind Shoplifting and Other Self-defeating Behaviors is based on the premise that people don't want to make their life any harder than it is and that when they are shown who they really are as individuals and how to easily change their thinking and beliefs which are false or self-destructive, they can be guided to significantly alter their life solely on their own steam. The ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • My German Question

    Growing Up in Nazi Berlin

    by Peter Gay ...
    "Not only a memoir, it's also a fierce reply to those who criticized German-Jewish assimilation and the tardiness of many families in leaving Germany" ( Publishers Weekly).In this poignant book, a renowned historian tells of his youth as an assimilated, anti-religious Jew in Nazi Germany from 1933 to 1939—"the story," says Peter Gay, "of a poisoning and how I dealt with it." With his customary ... Read more

    $19.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Berlin Package

    by Peter Riva ...
    Series Book 2 - The Mbuno & Pero Thrillers
    A filmmaker moonlighting as a top-secret courier must thwart a deadly plot involving kidnappers and Nazi gold in this break-neck thriller.Pero Baltazar's work as a film producer takes him all over the world. It's the sort of career that has made him an asset to the US State Department as a part-time courier. His last assignment from them, however, proved almost fatal and required some time off ... Read more

    $11.19 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Clean-up of Former Soviet Military Installations

    Identification and Selection of Environmental Technologies for Use in Central and Eastern Europe

    Edited by John E. Moerlins, J.Michael Kuperberg, Peter I. Richter, Imre L. Biczo, Roy C. Herndon ...
    Series Book 1 - Nato Science Partnership Subseries
    A NATO Advanced Research Workshop (ARW) was conducted on June 21-23, 1994 in Visegnid, Hungary related to the clean-up of former Soviet military installation sites. This ARW included a technical site visit to the Komarom Base Site which is a former Soviet military installation in Hungary. During this three-day ARW, a strategy and set of recommendations were developed for selecting technologies and ... Read more

    $64.99 CAD

  • Berlin Now

    The City After the Wall

    by Peter Schneider ...
    Translated by Sophie Schlondorff ...
    An entertaining, enlightening, and "engrossing" journey through Europe's most charismatic and enigmatic city ( The Christian Science Monitor).It isn't Europe's most beautiful city, or its oldest. Its architecture is not more impressive than that of Rome or Paris; its museums do not hold more treasures than those in Barcelona or London. And yet, Peter Schneider tells us, when citizens of New York, ... Read more

    $17.99 CAD

  • The Passenger: Berlin

    by The Passenger, Cees Nooteboom, Peter Schneider, Annett Gröschner ...
    Series series The Passenger
    The best new writing, photography, art, and reportage from and about Berlin—in the series that's "like a literary vacation" ( Publishers Weekly).In 1990s Berlin, the scars of a century of war were still visible everywhere: coal stoves, crumbling buildings, desolate minimarts, not a working buzzer or elevator. To visit the city then was a hallucinatory experience, a simultaneous journey into the ... Read more

    $17.99 CAD

  • Thirty Years After the Berlin Wall

    German Unification and Transformation Research

    Edited by Ayline Heller, Peter Schmidt ...
    Series series Routledge Advances in Sociology
    This book examines the increasing body of research dedicated to the lasting differences between the former separate states of the Federal German Republic (FRG) and the German Democratic Republic (GDR). Thirty years after the fall of the Berlin Wall, it takes a broad view on German unification and transformation research.Transformation and unification processes in East and West Germany are still ... Read more

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  • Berlin Cabaret

    by Peter Jelavich ...
    Series Book 9 - Studies in Cultural History
    Step into Ernst Wolzogen's Motley Theater, Max Reinhardt's Sound and Smoke, Rudolf Nelson's Chat noir, and Friedrich Hollaender's Tingel-Tangel. Enjoy Claire Waldoff's rendering of a lower-class Berliner, Kurt Tucholsky's satirical songs, and Walter Mehring's Dadaist experiments, as Peter Jelavich spotlights Berlin's cabarets from the day the curtain first went up, in 1901, until the Nazi regime ... Read more

    $48.49 CAD

  • Plant Nitrogen

    Edited by Peter J. Lea, Jean-Francois Morot-Gaudry ...
    Jointly published with INRA, Paris.This book covers all aspects of the transfer of nitrogen from the soil and air to a final resting place in the seed protein of a crop plant. It describes the physiological and molecular mechanisms of ammonium and nitrate transport and assimilation, including symbiotic nitrogen fixation by the Rhizobiacea. Amino acid metabolism and nitrogen traffic during plant ... Read more

    $256.99 CAD

  • Continuum Physics

    by Peter Hertel ...
    Series series Physics and Astronomy (R0)
    This small book on the properties of continuously distributed matter covers a huge field. It sets out the governing principles of continuum physics and illustrates them by carefully chosen examples. These examples comprise structural mechanics and elasticity, fluid media, electricity and optics, thermoelectricity, fluctuation phenomena and more, from Archimedes' principle via Brownian motion to ... Read more

    $64.99 CAD