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Das zweiteilige monumentale Meisterwerk von Andrej Tarkowski gilt als Meilenstein der Filmgeschichte und erzählt in mehreren Episoden die Lebensgeschichte des legendären altrussischen Ikonenmalers Andrej Rubljow. Der Film schildert den alltäglichen Kampf des an eher fortschrittlichen Idealen orientierten Malers zwischen Religion und weltlichen Zweifeln. Rubljow wird Zeuge der kompromisslosen Macht- und Kriegspolitik seiner eigenen Auftraggeber...

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In this acclaimed tour de force, Twain moves from broad comedy to biting social satire, from the pure joy of wild high jinks to deeply probing insights into the nature of man. Features a new Introduction by Leland Krauth. Original.

In the twenty-first century, Germany's Third Reich continues to thrive after its victory in World War II-keeping most of Europe and North America under its heel. But within the heart of the Nazi regime, a secret lives. Under a perfect Aryan facade, Jews survive-living their lives, raising their families, and fearing discovery...

New Orleans scrapbooking shop owner Carmela Bertrand's pre-wedding party is overshadowed when a friend's intended groom is murdered. Asked by the heartbroken bride to look into the case, Carmela must help her friend pick up the pieces while wrapping up a murder that has more than one lethal loose end.

It's Inspector Adrian Philips's job to keep the peace between humans and demons in Avvar. Part demon, part human, he's hated by both sides. But when he meets Roxanne, a fellow outcast, he finds in her everything his soul needs--and his body yearns for. The question is, will the exquisite pleasure they find together be worth the dangerous wrath of their enemies?

George Herbert (1593-1633) has come to be one of the most admired of the metaphysical poets. Though he is a profoundly religious poet, even secular readers respond to his quiet intensity and exuberant inventiveness, which are amply showcased in this selection.Herbert experimented brilliantly with a remarkable variety of forms, from hymns and sonnets to pattern poems, the shapes of which reveal their subjects. Such technical agility never seems...

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In a work of extraordinary narrative power, filled with brilliant personalities and vivid scenes of dramatic action, Robert K. Massie, the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Peter the Great, Nicholas and Alexandra, and Dreadnought, elevates to its proper historical importance the role of sea power in the winning of the Great War.The predominant image of this first world war is of mud and trenches, barbed wire, machine guns, poison gas, and slaug...

Reprinted from the 1894 edition"--T.p. verso.

From codex to document, from performance to self-image, the world of artists' books is made available to student and teacher, collector and connoisseur." -Paula Frosch, Metropolitan Museum of Art Library, Library JournalNow Back in Print! Johanna Drucker's The Century of Artists' Books is the seminal full-length study of the development of artists' books as a twentieth-century art form. By situating artists' books within the context of mainstr...

From the early 1800s to the outbreak of World War II, this collection spans more than 100 years of literary history with 33 complete short stories by such timeless masters as Washington Irving, Mark Twain, Jack London, and William Faulkner. Reissue.

This funny coming-of-age story follows Lyle Clemens as he travels through the religious fundamentalist world of Texas to the gambling palaces of Las Vegas and the enticing traps of Los Angeles.

Offers a study of how human factors engineers have worked with medical personnel to improve patient safety and reduce medical error in the minimally invasive surgical procedures. This book features examples from laparoscopy, arthroscopy, virtual colonoscopy, and cardiovascular catheter interventions.

Das wohl bekannteste Beispiel einer Wahrheitskommission, die südafrikanische «Wahrheits- und Versöhnungskommission», wird in der Arbeit näher analysiert. Zentrale Frage ist, welchen Beitrag diese Kommission zur Friedenskonsolidierung und Konfliktbearbeitung in Südafrika leisten konnte? Es wird zunächst allgemein auf die Rolle von Wahrheitskommissionen in Friedens- und Übergangsprozessen eingegangen, wobei einige abgeschlossene Kommissionen näh...

Covers important name reactions relevant to heterocyclic chemistry The field of heterocyclic chemistry has long presented a special challenge for chemists. Because of the enormous amount and variety of information, it is often a difficult topic to cover for undergraduate and graduate chemistry students, even in simplified form. Yet the chemistry of heterocyclic compounds and methods for their synthesis form the bedrock of modern medicinal chem...

There's not a whole lot happening in Gary, Indiana. That is, until nationally renowned relationship expert Lance Montgomery bursts on to the scene. Twice divorced, Montgomery is now on a mission to perfect the art of being single. His tantalizing book The Playa's Handbook is causing quite a stir. His rules include:*Never give a woman the key to your apartment.*Playas "have sex", they don't "make love."*Don't be afraid not to commit, no matter ...

Alexander Berkman was a twentieth-century American revolutionary. Like the abolitionist John Brown before him, Berkman was hugely idealistic, ready to go to the furthest extreme of self-sacrifice and violence on behalf of justice and civil rights. He decided to assassinate industrialist Henry Clay Frick after reading in the newspaper that Pinkertons hired by Frick had opened fire on the Homestead strikers, killing men, women, and children. Ber...

What emerges from this book is a vision of moral insight that prepares practitioners and theorists in the realm of Catholic morals to set off in new directions, while seeking guidance from the truths that are at the heart of Catholicism.