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In the wake of white nationalist attacks, the ongoing debate over reparations, and the controversy surrounding Confederate monuments and the contested memories they evoke, Susan Neiman's Learning from the Germans delivers an urgently needed perspective on how a country can come to terms with its historical wrongdoings. Neiman is a white woman who came of age in the civil rights-era South and a Jewish woman who has spent much of her adult life in Berlin.

From the end of the Baroque age and the death of Bach in 1750 to the rise of Hitler in 1933, Germany was transformed from a poor relation among Western nations into a dominant intellectual and cultural force more influential than France, Britain, Italy, Holland and the United States. In the early decades of the 20th century, German artists, writers, philosophers, scientists and engineers were leading their freshly unified country to new and undreamed of heights, and by 1933, they had won more Nobel prizes than anyone else and more than the British and Americans combined.

Emerging from a collection of disparate city states 150 years ago, no other country has had as turbulent a history as Germany or enjoyed so much prosperity in such a short time frame. Today, as much of the world succumbs to authoritarianism and democracy is undermined from its heart, Germany stands as a bulwark for decency and stability. Mixing personal journey and anecdote with compelling empirical evidence, this is a searching and entertaining exploration of the country many in the West still love to hate.

Edited and with an introduction by philosopher Tom Whyman, this new abridged version The German Ideology sheds new light on one of the most difficult, disputed texts in Marx’s oeuvre. Written in 1846 and subsequently abandoned by Marx and Engels, only to be rescued in the 1930s by researchers in the USSR, The German Ideology is the high point of Marx’s philosophical thought: A brilliantly insightful, still thrillingly radical work of materialist philosophical therapy.

An explosive World War Two adventure from the author of The Eagle Has Landed set on the eve of D-Day. A routine mission ends in icy terror for OSS agent Craig Osborne, as he floats helplessly in the sea off the coast of Brittany. The rumble of engines should signal rescue.... But it is a German warship which appears out of the fog - hauling Osborne to safety and preparing him for the fight.

In 1919 the Treaty of Versailles stripped Germany of its overseas colonies. This sudden transition to a post-colonial nation left the men and women invested in German imperialism to rebuild their status on the international stage. Remnants of an earlier era, these Kolonialdeutsche (Colonial Germans) exploited any opportunities they could to recover, renovate, and market their understandings of German and European colonial aims in order to reestablish themselves as "experts" and "fellow civilizers" in discourses on nationalism and imperialism.

This complete collection brings together the full scope of Nietzsche's radical and transformative philosophy in a single, meticulously curated work.

In der Ausgabe 13/2021 von "Spotlight Audio" geht es nach Schloss Hever in England und Sie hören die tragische Geschichte von König Heinrich VIII. und seiner zweiten Frau Anne Boleyn. Ebenfalls in dieser Ausgabe: Eine indische Köchin, die in den sozialen Medien große Erfolge feiert. Und genießen Sie eine dreiteilige Kriminalgeschichte mit Privatdetektiv Bill Hale und seinem schwarzen Labrador Spot. Englisch lernen mit "Spotlight Audio".

As a compilation of notable fragments from the writings of German philosopher G. W. F. Hegel, this audiobook functions as a helpful and intriguing introduction to the keynotes of his thought. This audiobook, comprised of short selections from Hegel's writings and organized by theme, includes a preface by Elizabeth Haldane and a foreword by Sarah Bacaller. Each Hegelian fragment includes a reference to its original source for those who want to further pursue particular selections.

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Becoming German tells the intriguing story of the largest and earliest mass movement of German-speaking immigrants to America. The so-called Palatine migration of 1709 began in the western part of the Holy Roman Empire, where perhaps as many as 30,000 people left their homes, lured by rumors that Britain's Queen Anne would give them free passage overseas and land in America.

In der Mai/Juni-Ausgabe von Spot on Audio geht es in den Big Apple! Ihr entdeckt Ellis Island, den Broadway und viele weitere Seiten New Yorks...

Diesen Monat geht es in den Süden der USA. Trainieren Sie Ihr Hörverständnis, und genießen Sie den Klang eines authentischen Südstaatenakzents...

Heutzutage arbeiten viele Menschen in sogenannten Matrix-Organisationen. Was futuristisch klingt, beschreibt im Großen und Ganzen eine Struktur, in der man abteilungsübergreifend arbeitet...

Lassen Sie sich in der Januarausgabe von Spotlight vom weihnachtlichen New York bezaubern und besuchen Sie u.a. das berühmteste Restaurant am Broadway. Auf den Sprachlernseiten betrachten Sie dann unterschiedliche Methoden zum Verbessern der Englischkenntnisse. Außerdem erfahren Sie von einem kalifornischen Rechtsanwalt, wie internationale Meetings effektiver gestaltet werden können, und Sie tauchen ein in die Welt der Extremsportarten.

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Some refugees who had fled from Germany, in an attempt to escape Nazi persecution, were rounded up, interned, and later used in a prisoner exchange program between the United States and German governments. The American government also went to great lengths to secure Germans living across Latin America, who they believed posed a tangible threat, should they cross America’s southern border. In spite of a preponderance of evidence affirming the occurrence of these events, the United States government persistently denied it for decades.

Verben mit Präpositionen (auf Englisch "Phrasal Verbs") machen das Englischlernen nicht gerade einfach. Meistern Sie diesen Aspekt der englischen Grammatik in der Ausgabe April 2015 von Spotlight Audio. Außerdem in diesem Monat: Besuchen Sie Neuseelands Nordküste. Für den Tauchpionier und Abenteurer Jacques Cousteau gehörten die Poor Knights Islands dort zu den Top Ten der Tauchziele der Welt. Und unter den Rubrik "English at Work": Wie begrüßt man Besucher einer Firma am besten?

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