Explores why being generous and altruistic leads to more personal and societal success than being selfish and mean based on research into brain function, genetics and social psychology behavioral and
Packed with contemporary dialogue, engaging readings, active vocabulary, and an assortment of hands-on activities, NEUE HORIZONTE, 8e skillfully instills both communicative and grammatical competency
Packed with contemporary dialogue, engaging readings, active vocabulary, and an assortment of hands-on activities, NEUE HORIZONTE, 8e skillfully instills both communicative and grammatical competency
This combination workbook/laboratory manual helps your students maximize their success. The workbook section provides a variety of written exercises for chapters 1-15 that recombine the vocabulary and
The art of the Sistine Chapel, decorated by artists who competed with one another and commissioned by popes who were equally competitive, is a complex fabric of thematic, chronological, and artistic r
Appearing for the first time in English, this masterful novel by one of the foremost figures of postwar German literature is an indelible portrait of Nazism slowly overtaking and poisoning a small tow
Susan Sontag (1933–2004) was one of America’s first celebrity intellectuals. In the first biography to be published since her death, Daniel Schreiber portrays a glamorous woman full of contradictions
The art of Rubens is rooted in an era darkened by the long shadow of devastating wars between Protestants and Catholics. In the wake of this profound schism, the Catholic Church decided to cease using
An award-winning journalist transforms his lifelong fascination with the world of the Gypsies into fiction with this exuberant, deeply enchanting debut novel—both whimsical and suspenseful—winner of t
Internationally renowned, bestselling science journalist Stefan shows how we as individuals benefit from altruistic behavior—and why our society cannot function without it. Klein’s blend of cutting-ed
Living in a tiny 1950s Carpathian mountains village isolated from the communism of Eastern Europe, 15-year-old Pavel Botev attends a school taught by an exiled alcoholic who quietly orders him to kill
Written in 1958 and published in German as Kindheit: Fragment einer Autobiographie in 2003, the memoir of poet Moses Rosenkranz (1904-2003) contains recollections of a rural childhood, from birth to a
A masterful intellectual portrait, Goethe: Life as a Work of Art is celebrated as the seminal twenty-first-century biography of the writer considered to be the Shakespeare of German literature. Johann
Manet Paints Monet focuses on an auspicious moment in the history of art. In the summer of 1874, Edouard Manet (1832?1883) and Claude Monet (1840?1926), two outstanding painters of the nascent Impress
“A wonderfully melancholy, tight and precisely constructed novel.” —Berliner Morgenpost The Diver is a beautifully written and observed novel about Albert—eighty-two and suffe
Gustav Rubin, a fur dealer in Vienna, flies to New York to spend the summer with his wife and children in a lake house north of the city. Arriving late at the airport, he is met by his unrelentingly
The Workbook section of the SAM contains a variety of written exercises for chapters 1-15 that recombine the vocabulary and grammar structures presented in the corresponding chapter of the student tex
"One of the most important novels of contemporary Austrian literature."—Neue Zürcher ZeitungMax Berman, a successful but rootless New York restoration architect, socialite, and ladies' man,
Contains the Dialoge, Lyrik zum Vorlesen, and the Lesest?ck for each regular chapter. Many of the mini-dialogues and basic expressions for the Einf?hrung chapter are also included.
“Don’t thank me for your survival, thank your valiant Stern and Pemper, who stared death in the face constantly.”—Oskar Schindler in a speech to his released Jewish workers in May 1945.Steven Spielber
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Appearing together in English for the first time, two masterpieces that take on the jazz age, the Nuremburg trials, postwar commercialism, and the feat of writing a book, presented in one brilliant vo
