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Una Venezia estiva ammorbata da una peste incombente ospita l'inquieto Gustav Aschenbach, famoso scrittore tedesco che ha costruito vita e opera sulla più ostinata fedeltà ai canoni classici dell'etica e dell'estetica. Un sottile impulso lo scuote nel momento in cui compare sulla spiaggia del Lido la spietata bellezza di Tadzio, un ragazzo polacco. Un unico gioco di sguardi, la vergogna della propria decrepitezza, la scelta di imbellettarsi pe...

Excerpt from Der Tod in Venedig: Novelle Gustav Aschenbach oder von Aschenbsacly wie seit seinem funfzigsten Geburtstag amtlich sein Name lautete, hatte an einem Friihlingsnaclimittag des Iahres 19..., das unserem Kontinent tnioniatelsang eine so gefahrdrohende Miene zeigte, von seiner Wohnung in der Prinzregentenstralse zu München aus allein einen weiteren Spaziergang unternommen. Überreizt von der schwierigen und gefährlichen, eben jetzt ei...

Hyperpartisanship has gridlocked the American government. Congress' approval ratings are at record lows, and both Democrats and Republicans are disgusted by the government's inability to get anything done. In It's Even Worse Than It Looks, Congressional scholars Thomas E. Mann and Norman J. Ornstein present a grim picture of how party polarization and tribal politics have led Congress--and the United States--to the brink of institutional failu...

Hyperpartisanship has gridlocked the American government. Congress' approval ratings are at record lows, and both Democrats and Republicans are disgusted by the government's inability to get anything done. In It's Even Worse Than It Looks, Congressional scholars Thomas E. Mann and Norman J. Ornstein present a grim picture of how party polarization and tribal politics have led Congress--and the United States--to the brink of institutional failu...

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[Mann and Ornstein] have done the public a great service-and have been much braver than many in the media, the think tanks, or Congress-in using their personal credibility to clearly describe what has happened to American politics in recent years, and who is primarily to blame."-Ezra Klein, New York Review of Books

Buddenbrooks, first published in Germany in 1901, when Mann was only twenty-six, has become a classic of modern literature. It is the story of four generations of a wealthy bourgeois family in northern Germany facing the advent of modernity, in an uncertain new world, the family's bonds and traditions begin to disintegrate. As Mann charts the Buddenbrooks' decline from prosperity to bankruptcy, from moral and psychic soundness to sickly piety,...

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Erstausgabe aus dem Jahre 1922.

È la storia dell'ascesa e del declino di una famiglia della borghesia mercantile del sec. XIX, titolare a Lubecca di una ditta di cereali, fondata nel 1768. La vicenda si intreccia introno alla vita dei primogeniti di quattro generazioni: Johann senior, Johann-Jean junior, Thomas e Hanno. Il romanzo si apre con un pranzo dato dal vecchio Johann per inaugurare la nuova sede della ditta. Le fortune della famiglia aumentano, Johann junior diventa...

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From 1900 through 1975, the city of Ypsilanti underwent a multitude of changes as it developed from a small farming community into a center of education and business. The rise of the automobile and the insurgence of auto manufacturing, the progress of local arts and theater, the opening of the Bomber Plant at Willow Run, and the transformation of a teachers' college into Eastern Michigan University are just a few of these historic developments...

A fascinating analysis of the film magazines in their larger context as cultural artifacts of bygone eras.

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