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  • Marseille 1940

    The Flight of Literature

    by Uwe Wittstock ...
    Translated by Daniel Bowles ...
    June 1940: France surrenders to Germany. The Gestapo is searching for Heinrich Mann and Franz Werfel, Hannah Arendt, Lion Feuchtwanger and many other writers and artists who had sought asylum in France since 1933. The young American journalist Varian Fry arrives in Marseille with the aim of rescuing as many as possible. This is the harrowing story of their flight from the Nazis under the most ... Read more

    $24.00 USD

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    The Economic and Ethical Costs of American Health Care

    by Uwe E. Reinhardt ...
    From a giant of health care policy, an engaging and enlightening account of why American health care is so expensive—and why it doesn't have to beUwe Reinhardt was a towering figure and moral conscience of health care policy in the United States and beyond. Famously bipartisan, he advised presidents and Congress on health reform and originated central features of the Affordable Care Act. In Priced ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Qualityland

    by Marc-Uwe Kling ...
    In the near future sci-fi world of Qualityland, algorithms help create an idyllic life for its citizens, but what if the perfect world wasn't built for you?Welcome to QualityLand, the best country on Earth. Here, a universal ranking system determines the social advantages and career opportunities of every member of society. An automated matchmaking service knows the best partners for everyone and ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Peace and Chaos

    A great discovery should not end up as the creator of mad disease neither in the present nor in the future!

    by Uwe ...
    An artistic piece of portrayal of modern-day yin-yang, push-pull, space-time, force-gravity or Peace and Chaos. A beautifully chronicled literature of moder-day Chaos unleashed by Internet on our lives and to restore some Peace back is so exquisitely portrayed using different shades of a modern-day femme fatale.Internet was supposed to be the discovery of the Century, it turned out as a modern-day ... Read more

    $2.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Anniversaries, Volume 2

    From a Year in the Life of Gesine Cresspahl, April 1968–August 1968

    by Uwe Johnson ...
    Translated by Damion Searls ...
    The second volume of a titanic masterpiece of twentieth-century literature, named one of the best books of 2019 by The New York Times critics.Anniversaries, Volume 2 begins on April 20, 1968. Before long Marie will be devastated by the assassination of Robert F. Kennedy, even as the news of the Prague Spring has awakened Gesine’s long-dashed hopes that socialism could be a humanism. Meanwhile, her ... Read more

    $15.99 USD

  • February 1933

    The Winter of Literature

    by Uwe Wittstock ...
    Translated by Daniel Bowles ...
    It all happened in a flash. February 1933 was the month in which the fate of German writers, as for so many others, was decided. In a tensely spun narrative, Uwe Wittstock tells the story of a demise which was predicted by some but also scarcely thought possible. He reveals how, in a matter of weeks, the glittering Weimar literary scene gave way to a long, dark winter, and how the net drew ever ... Read more

    $24.00 USD

  • The SAGE Handbook of Qualitative Research Design

    Edited by Uwe Flick ...
    Qualitative research design is continually evolving. It is not only more established in disciplines beyond the traditional social sciences in which it is a standard choice, but also just as impacted by the changes in what data, technologies, and approaches researchers are using. This Handbook takes readers through the foundational theories, functions, strategies, and approaches to qualitative ... Read more

    $243.99 USD

  • Developing Writing Skills in German

    Edited by Annette Duensing, Uwe Baumann ...
    Series series Developing Writing Skills
    Developing Writing Skills in German, is a unique course designed to improve the reading and writing skills of intermediate students of German. Presenting a wide range of authentic written materials, the book aims to develop reading strategies and the ability to write texts of various types - essays, articles and reviews - while imparting an understanding of important aspects of German society.From ... Read more

    $73.99 USD

  • The Kangaroo Chronicles

    by Marc-Uwe Kling ...
    Translated by Paul-Henri Campbell, Sarah Cossaboon ...
    Marc-Uwe lives together with a kangaroo. The kangaroo is a communist and it is really into Nirvana. It's a classical Berlin flat-sharing community, where the deep questions of life are debated: Is lying in a hammock already a kind of passive resistance? Must the Kangaroo place its pouch onto the conveyor belt at the airport security check? Did the Kangaroo really fight for the Vietcong? And why is ... Read more

    $3.99 USD

  • Anniversaries, Volume 1

    From a Year in the Life of Gesine Cresspahl, August 1967–April 1968

    by Uwe Johnson ...
    Translated by Damion Searls ...
    The first volume of a titanic masterpiece of twentieth-century literature, named one of the best books of 2018 by The New York Times critics.Published to great acclaim as a two-part boxed set in 2018, Anniversaries is now available as two individual volumes. It is August 1967, and Gesine Cresspahl, born in Germany the year that Hitler came to power, a survivor of war, of Soviet occupation, and of ... Read more

    $19.99 USD

  • Kraftwerk

    Future Music from Germany

    by Uwe Schütte ...
    The story of the phenomenon that is Kraftwerk, and how they revolutionised our cultural landscape'We are not artists nor musicians. We are workers.' Ignoring nearly all rock traditions, expermenting in near-total secrecy in their Düsseldorf studio, Kraftwerk fused sound and technology, graphic design and performance, modernist Bauhaus aesthetics and Rhineland industrialisation - even human and ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • The Tower

    Tales from a Lost Country

    by Uwe Tellkamp ...
    In derelict Dresden a cultivated, middle-class family does all it can to cope amid the Communist downfall. This striking tapestry of the East German experience is told through the tangled lives of a soldier, surgeon, nurse and publisher. With evocative detail, Uwe Tellkamp masterfully reveals the myriad perspectives of the time as people battled for individuality, retreated to nostalgia, chose to ... Read more

    $14.29 USD