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  • Alice, Shaken and Definitely Stirred

    by Paula Smith ...
    This uplifting romantic comedy takes you on Alice’s journey, interweaving her relationships with real-life characters and dreams involving her favourite romantic screen idols.Lamenting the loss of her long-term partner and having been made redundant, Alice makes a New Year’s resolution to get on with life, and definitely without a man. But things don’t quite go to plan. As her Aunt Betty says, ... Read more

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  • The Unique Andy Warhol

    The Life and Works of the Most Important Pop Artist

    by Bert Alexander Petzold ...
    Translated by Paula Smith ...
    Series series Global Basics 101 · Your Series for Modern Knowledge
    Why does a soup can feel like a work of art? Why does a starlet’s pose become an icon? And why does our present sometimes feel like an endless repetition of images? If you understand Andy Warhol, you understand the mechanics of pop culture, media and fame right up to our own day. This non-fiction book opens the door to an artist who turned advertising into art – and art into a brand: cool, razor ... Read more

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  • Sigmund Freud, Neurologist and Psychologist

    The Life and Work of the Founder of Psychoanalysis and Pioneer in the Study of the Human Unconscious

    by Bert Alexander Petzold ...
    Translated by Paula Smith ...
    Series series Global Basics 101 · Your Series for Modern Knowledge
    What happens when a person no longer understands themselves as master in their own house and suddenly senses that unconscious wishes, repressed conflicts and old childhood images are steering their thinking? This non fiction book takes you into the world of Sigmund Freud and explains, in an accessible way, why his ideas around 1900 shook medicine and still shape our view of psyche, culture and ... Read more

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  • The History of China

    Imperial dynasties, Confucianism, inventions, revolutions and reforms · China’s rise from an ancient empire through the People’s Republic to a global economic power

    by Bert Alexander Petzold ...
    Translated by Paula Smith ...
    Series series Global Basics 101 · Your Series for Modern Knowledge
    How could one of the world’s oldest civilisations become a state that today commands global attention, poised between millennia-old culture and digital supremacy? Anyone wishing to understand China needs more than headlines. ‘History of China’ shows, in a clearly structured way, how dynasties, revolutions and modernisation gave rise to one of the most influential powers of the present day.The book ... Read more

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  • The History of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland (UK)

    Romans, Normans, Empire, Industrialisation and Imperialism · The History of Great Britain from Monarchy and Global Sea Power to Parliamentary Democracy and Constitutional Monarchy

    by Bert Alexander Petzold ...
    Translated by Paula Smith ...
    Series series Global Basics 101 · Your Series for Modern Knowledge
    How could an island on the edge of Europe give rise to the power that, through kings, Parliament, empire and industrialisation, shaped the world for centuries? Anyone wishing to understand Great Britain, its political upheavals and its global influence, will find in this book far more than a mere chronicle. ‘The History of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland (UK)’ is a fact ... Read more

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  • The History of France

    Celts, Romans, Kings, Revolutions and the Napoleonic Wars · The History of France between Courtly Culture, Republican Tradition, Cultural Prestige and Political Influence in Europe

    by Bert Alexander Petzold ...
    Translated by Paula Smith ...
    Series series Global Basics 101 · Your Series for Modern Knowledge
    Why did France become a country that shaped Europe’s history, politics and culture over the centuries more profoundly than almost any other nation? This book presents France as the cultural visionary of the new Europe and leads straight into a history full of upheavals, power struggles, ideas and moments of artistic brilliance. Anyone wishing to understand Europe will discover here the ... Read more

    $2.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Painter Rembrandt Harmenszoon van Rijn

    Superstar during the Golden Age of the Netherlands · Life and Works of the Baroque Painter

    by Bert Alexander Petzold ...
    Translated by Paula Smith ...
    Series series Global Basics 101 · Your Series for Modern Knowledge
    Anyone who looks at Rembrandt van Rijn sees more than Baroque painting. They see light that grows out of darkness, faces full of inwardness, and a kind of painting that still feels like a conversation today. What makes Rembrandt’s art so distinctive that his pictures in the Rembrandt Museum and in the great collections of the world hold people spellbound, from art lessons at school to art history ... Read more

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  • The Painter and Versatile Artist Pablo Picasso

    Life and Works of a Multifaceted Twentieth-Century Genius

    by Bert Alexander Petzold ...
    Translated by Paula Smith ...
    Series series Global Basics 101 · Your Series for Modern Knowledge
    Anyone who knows Pablo Picasso only as a famous name has merely skimmed the surface. This non-fiction book opens up a view behind myth and masterpiece and shows why Picasso’s art still electrifies us today. You follow a compelling Picasso biography that does not stop at anecdotes, but explains how talent and defiance combined to form an artist who shaped Classical Modernism and repeatedly ... Read more

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  • The Admired Painter Frida Kahlo

    The Life and Works of an Icon of Art and Feminism

    by Petzold Bert Alexander ...
    Translated by Paula Smith ...
    Series series Global Basics 101 · Your Series for Modern Knowledge
    Why does the art world celebrate male genius while overlooking the revolutionary women who transformed how we see pain, identity, and the female experience? Discover how one Mexican painter defied convention, suffering, and erasure to become the most iconic feminist artist of the twentieth century.Frida Kahlo didn't just paint self-portraits – she created a visual language that spoke truths about ... Read more

    $2.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The History of the United States of America

    Colonies, Independence from Great Britain, Civil War and Displaced Indigenous Peoples · The Rise of the United States as a Global High-Technology Economic Power and the Dominant Political Force of the West

    by Bert Alexander Petzold ...
    Translated by Paula Smith ...
    Series series Global Basics 101 · Your Series for Modern Knowledge
    How did a handful of colonies in a short space of time become a nation that shapes politics, business and science across the world? Anyone who wants to understand the rapid rise of the United States to world power not merely in slogans but in its causes and consequences will find in this book a fact rich and compelling account. ‘History of the USA’ shows in a clear, engaging and well structured ... Read more

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  • The Physicist Albert Einstein

    Life and Works of the Founder of the Theory of Relativity and the Best-Known Scientific Genius and Pacifist of the Twentieth Century

    by Bert Alexander Petzold ...
    Translated by Paula Smith ...
    Series series Global Basics 101 · Your Series for Modern Knowledge
    Anyone who knows Albert Einstein only as a tousle haired face on a poster has seen only the surface. How could a physicist so fundamentally change the Newtonian view of the world that time and space suddenly became mobile and the twentieth century learned a new way of thinking. This non fiction book shows why Einstein, as the originator of the theory of relativity, became the very image of the ... Read more

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  • The Eccentric Painter and Artist Salvador Dalí

    The Life and Works of a Leading Representative of Surrealism

    by Bert Alexander Petzold ...
    Translated by Paula Smith ...
    Series series Global Basics 101 · Your Series for Modern Knowledge
    Why do melting clocks and burning giraffes still haunt us today, and why does Dalí’s world feel like a mirror of our own dreams? This non-fiction book shows you how Salvador Dalí turned the unconscious into images you never forget – and how a young provocateur became the best-known Surrealist of the twentieth century. Anyone who knows Dalí only as an eccentric figure will discover here the precise ... Read more

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