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**One of the Best Books of the Year:Janet Maslin, The New York TimesVultureNPR"Social Creature is a wicked original with echoes of the greats (Patricia Highsmith, Gillian Flynn)." —Janet Maslin, The New York Times**For readers of Gillian Flynn and Donna Tartt, a dark, propulsive and addictive debut thriller, splashed with all the glitz and glitter of New York City.They go through both bottles of champagne ...

A new collection of essays highlighting the wide range of Buber's thought, career, and activism.Best known for I and Thou, which laid out his distinction between dialogic and monologic relations, Martin Buber (1878–1965) was also an anthologist, translator, and author of some seven hundred books and papers. Martin Buber: Creaturely Life and Social Form, edited by Sarah Scott, is a collection of nine essays that explore his thought and career....

Using Germany as a national case study, this volume examines the historical genesis of precarity, its evolution from 19th-century industrial modernity to the present, and its reflections and reconfigurations in artistic production, in particular with relation to work, gender, and sexuality.“Precarity is everywhere now,” sociologist Pierre Bourdieu declared almost thirty years ago. Not only declining middle-class standards of living, but also debt, drug addiction, h...

Beginning with the question of the role of the past in the shaping of a contemporary identity, this volumes spans three generations of German and Austrian writers and explores changes and shifts in the aesthetics of Vergangenheitsbewältigung (coming to terms with the past). The purpose of the book is to assess contemporary German literary representations of National Socialism in a wider context of these current debates. The contributors address questions arising from a shift over the last...

This audiobook is narrated by a digital voice.How did social classes form, and what impact have they had on societies throughout history? Social stratification has been a defining feature of civilizations across the world. This book examines the origins and evolution of social classes from ancient caste systems to modern class distinctions based on wealth and power. It discusses the roles of religion, economics, and politics in shaping social hierarchies and the consequences of ine...

Today, the mention of Patagonia and Tierra del Fuego conjures images of idyllic landscapes untouched by globalization. Creatures of Fashion upends this, revealing how the exploitation of animals—terrestrial and marine, domesticated and wild, living and dead—was central to the region’s transformation from Indigenous lands into the national territories of Argentina and Chile. Drawing on evidence from archives and digital repositories, John Soluri traces the circulation of furs and f...

German Journey – Lesson 4: Plan your dream trip and talk about animals in natural, beginner-friendly German. Guided by teacher Jasmin and learner Ari, this lesson starts with practical vacation language: packing essentials, airport and hotel basics, beach and pool words, and culture notes that make travel smoother. Short call-and-response prompts keep you speaking from the start, while a simple roleplay helps you practice planning a trip and checking into a hotel. In the second half, you'l...

A new collection of essays highlighting the wide range of Buber's thought, career, and activism.Best known for I and Thou, which laid out his distinction between dialogic and monologic relations, Martin Buber (1878–1965) was also an anthologist, translator, and author of some seven hundred books and papers. Martin Buber: Creaturely Life and Social Form, edited by Sarah Scott, is a collection of nine essays that explore his thought and career....

This book, which was first published in 1988, deals with the neglected history of the lowest layers of German society, of marginal, outcast and deviant groups such as arsonists, witches, bandits, infanticides, poachers, murderers, prostitutes, vagrants and thieves, from the end of the thirteenth century to the middle of the twentieth. This book is ideal for students of history, particularly the German history.

For the last 30 years, scholars have treated Enlightenment race theory and nineteenth-century German colonialism as two distinct events. In Colonialism and Enlightenment, editors Bettina Brandt and Daniel L. Purdy present perspectives from scholars across the fields of philosophy, postcolonialism, literature, and German and African American studies, who challenge this view, providing a critical examination of the historical connection between "scientific" racial theory in late-Enl...

This audiobook presents short, accessible stories for English speakers learning German, using a clear and effective structure: each story is first read entirely in German, then repeated in English, and finally read once more in German. This German–English–German format helps listeners follow the narrative without needing to understand every word the first time. The initial German pass offers natural exposure to rhythm and sound; the English translation fills in meaning; and the final Germa...

**One of the Best Books of the Year:Janet Maslin, The New York TimesVultureNPR"Social Creature is a wicked original with echoes of the greats (Patricia Highsmith, Gillian Flynn)." —Janet Maslin, The New York Times**For readers of Gillian Flynn and Donna Tartt, a dark, propulsive and addictive debut thriller, splashed with all the glitz and glitter of New York City.They go through both bottles of champagne ...