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  • German Soldiers in the Great War

    Letters and Eyewitness Accounts

    Edited by Bernd Ulrich, Benjamin Ziemann ...
    The first English translation of writings that capture the lives and thoughts of German soldiers fighting in the trenches and on the battlefields of WWI.German Soldiers in the Great War is a vivid selection of firsthand accounts and other wartime documents that shed new light on the experiences of German frontline soldiers during the First World War. It reveals in authentic detail the perceptions ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Ravens in Winter

    by Bernd Heinrich ...
    **“One of the most interesting discoveries I’ve seen in animal sociobiology in years.” —E.O. WilsonWhy do ravens, often considered solitary birds, share food with one another in the harsh months of winter? At first glance, the behavior seemed to defy the rules of evolutionary biology. Yet the more biologist Bernd Heinrich observed these intelligent corvids, the more fascinating the puzzle became ... Read more

    $15.99 USD

  • Uncivil Unions

    The Metaphysics of Marriage in German Idealism & Romanticism

    by Adrian Daub ...
    "What a strange invention marriage is!" wrote Kierkegaard. "Is it the expression of that inexplicable erotic sentiment, that concordant elective affinity of souls, or is it a duty or a partnership . . . or is it a little of all that?"Like Kierkegaard a few decades later, many of Germany's most influential thinkers at the turn of the eighteenth century wondered about the nature of marriage but ... Read more

    $15.19 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Geese of Beaver Bog

    by Bernd Heinrich ...
    When award-winning writer and biologist Bernd Heinrich became the unwitting -- but doting -- foster parent of an adorable gosling named Peep, he was drawn into her world. And so, with a scientist's training and a nature lover's boundless enthusiasm, he set out to understand the travails and triumphs of the Canada geese living in the beaver bog adjacent to his home. In The Geese of Beaver Bog, ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

  • Tristan's Shadow

    Sexuality and the Total Work of Art after Wagner

    by Adrian Daub ...
    Das Rheingold, Die Walküre, and Siegfried. Parsifal. Tristan und Isolde. Both revered and reviled, Richard Wagner conceived some of the nineteenth century's most influential operas—and created some of the most indelible characters ever to grace the stage. But over the course of his polarizing career, Wagner also composed volumes of essays and pamphlets, some on topics seemingly quite distant from ... Read more

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  • The Dynastic Imagination

    Family and Modernity in Nineteenth-Century Germany

    by Adrian Daub ...
    Adrian Daub's The Dynastic Imagination offers an unexpected account of modern German intellectual history through frameworks of family and kinship. Modernity aimed to brush off dynastic, hierarchical authority and to make society anew through the mechanisms of marriage, siblinghood, and love. It was, in other words, centered on the nuclear family. But as Daub shows, the dynastic imagination ... Read more

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  • What Tech Calls Thinking

    An Inquiry into the Intellectual Bedrock of Silicon Valley

    by Adrian Daub ...
    Series series FSG Originals x Logic
    A New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice"In Daub’s hands the founding concepts of Silicon Valley don’t make money; they fall apart." --The New York Times Book ReviewFrom FSGO x Logic: a Stanford professor's spirited dismantling of Silicon Valley's intellectual originsAdrian Daub’s What Tech Calls Thinking is a lively dismantling of the ideas that form the intellectual bedrock ... ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Experiential Marketing

    How to Get Customers to Sense, Feel, Think, Act, Relate

    by Bernd H. Schmitt ...
    Engaging, enlightening, provocative, and sensational are the words people use to describe compelling experiences and these words also describe this extraordinary book by Bernd Schmitt.Moving beyond traditional "features-and-benefits" marketing, Schmitt presents a revolutionary approach to marketing for the branding and information age. Schmitt shows how managers can create holistic experiences for ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • Practical Process Automation

    by Bernd Ruecker ...
    In today's IT architectures, microservices and serverless functions play increasingly important roles in process automation. But how do you create meaningful, comprehensive, and connected business solutions when the individual components are decoupled and independent by design? Targeted at developers and architects, this book presents a framework through examples, practical advice, and use cases ... Read more

    $41.09 USD

  • Fortune Favours the Brave

    Tales of Courage and Tenacity in Canadian Military History

    Edited by Colonel Bernd Horn ...
    Many Canadians see the role their country's military plays in Afghanistan as an anomaly. However, this assumption is far from the truth. As U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice has commented, "Canadians are fierce fighters." Fortune Favours the Brave certainly proves this point in a collection of essays that showcases the fighting spirit and courage of Canada's military.Daring actions featured ... Read more

    $8.69 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Mind of the Raven

    Investigations and Adventures with Wolf-Birds

    by Bernd Heinrich ...
    In Mind of the Raven, Bernd Heinrich, award-winning naturalist, finds himself dreaming of ravens and decides he must get to the truth about this animal reputed to be so intelligent.Much like a sleuth, Heinrich involves us in his quest to understand their world, letting one clue lead to the next. But as animals can only be spied on by getting quite close Heinrich adopts ravens, thereby becoming a ... Read more

    $11.49 USD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Star Trek Prometheus -Fire with Fire

    by Christian Humberg, Bernd Perplies ...
    A mysterious terrorist organization has carried out several attacks against the Federation and Klingon Empire. Tensions are running high in a region already crippled by conflict. The perpetrators are tracked to the Lembatta Cluster, a mysterious region of space whose inhabitants, the Renao, regard the the Alpha Quadrant’s powers as little more than conquering tyrants. The Federation are desperate ... Read more

    $7.99 USD