Search Results - "The Abyss"
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Abyss of reason : cultural movements, revelations, and betrayals
Published: Oxford University Press, 1991Description: 305 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm.Book -
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Novels and social writings
Published: The Library of America, 1982Contents: “…The people of the abyss -- The road -- The iron heel -- Martin Eden -- John Barleycorn -- Essays.…”Description: 1192 pages ; 21 cm.
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The Swastika's darkening shadow : voices before the Holocaust First edition.
Published: Palgrave Macmillan, 2013Contents: “…The shadow of the Swastika: 1933-1935 -- The vise tightens: 1936-1937 -- To the abyss: 1938-1939.…”Description: 315 pages ; 24 cm.
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When I grow up : the lost autobiographies of six Yiddish teenagers
Published: Bloomsbury, 2021Contents: “…Preface: Crossing the abyss -- The before -- The eighth daughter -- The letter writer -- The folk singer -- The rule breaker -- The boy who liked a girl -- The skater -- The after.…”Description: 232 pages : color illustrations, 1 color map ; 23 cm.
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The Russian roots of Nazism : white émigrés and the making of National Socialism, 1917-1945
Published: Cambridge University Press, 2005Contents: “…The far right in the German and Russian empires -- At the extreme in the Ukraine and in Germany -- "Hand in hand with Germany" -- The international radical right's Aufbau (reconstruction) -- "Germany-Russia above everything" -- Conspiracies of fire and the sword -- "In quick March to the abyss!" The four writers of the apocalypse -- Aufbau's legacy to National Socialism.…”Description: xiii, 327 pages ; 24 cm.
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Democracy and power-sharing in stormy weather : the case of Lebanon 1st ed.
Published: VS, Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften, 2009Contents: “…Introductory Overview -- Review and Critique of the Literature on Consociational Democracy -- Pre-War Lebanon: a Dance into the Abyss of Consociationalism -- Post-War Lebanon: The Lost Republic's Peregrinations -- Post-War Lebanon's Long and Perilous Road to Democracy -- What about Post-War Consociationalism? …”Description: 1 online resource (477 pages) : illustrations.
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Mirrors of our playing : paradigms and presences in modern drama
Published: University of Michigan Press, 1999Contents: “…Playing with the playboy: Synge and tradition -- The music of serious farce: Wilde, Shaw, Orton, and Stoppard -- Communities of heartbreak: from Chekhov and Shaw to Friel and Smith -- Playing hell: Sartre, Beckett, Genet, and Pinter -- The presence of Byron -- Wham, bam, thank you Sam -- Soyinka's roads to the abyss -- Brook and the purpose of playing -- Afterword: Angels in America -- Works cited -- Index.…”Description: viii, 309 pages ; 24 cm.
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History of the twentieth century 1st U.S. ed.
Published: W. Morrow, 2001Contents: “…Between two storms, 1926-32 -- 6. Towards the abyss, 1933-39 -- 7. Second World War, 1939-45 -- 8. …”Description: xv, 783 pages, 24 unnumbered pages of plates : maps ; 24 cm.
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Olivier Messiaen music of faith
Published: Infobase, 2005Contents: “…Messiaen Realizes He is a Musician (1:29) -- Messiaen's Religious Influences (3:31) -- Messiaen's Lonely Childhood (4:14) -- Messiaen's Mother's Influence (3:40) -- Debussy's Influence on Messiaen (5:47) -- Messiaen Schools in Paris (3:53) -- Messiaen and the Organ (3:31) -- Messiaen's Colorful Music Palette (4:01) -- Messiaen's "Your Voice" (3:25) -- Messiaen's Bird Songs (2:53) -- Messiaen's Catalogue of Birds (4:10) -- "Color" of the Countryside (2:17) -- Bird Sounds in Instruments (3:24) -- Garden of Love's Sleep (5:47) -- Messiaen Becomes a Prisoner of War (4:06) -- Intermezzo and the Hands of the Abyss (4:30) -- Messiaen at the Paris Conservatoire (3:36) -- Spectrum of Sound (3:32) -- Messiaen's Importance of Faith (3:30) -- Messiaen's Modern Music (2:32)…”Description: 1 streaming video file (79 min.) : sd., col., digital file.
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Hermeneutical Heidegger
Published: Northwestern University Press, 2016Contents: “…Gordon -- The beckoning of language : Heidegger's hermeneutic transformation of thinking / Jeff Malpas -- Abyssal tonalities : Heidegger's language of hearkening / David Kleinberg-Levin -- The hurdle of words : language, being, and philosophy in Heidegger / Lawrence J. …”Description: 343 pages ; 23 cm.
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Hoover : an extraordinary life in extraordinary times First edition.
Published: Alfred A. Knopf, 2017Contents: “…"A pretty stiff time" -- "A whole jug full of experience" -- "I am the Devil" -- The adventures of Hu-hua and Hoo Loo -- "The late jar rather smashed my nerves" -- What lies beyond wealth -- "Hard to state without becoming hysterical" -- A pirate state organized for benevolence -- Make way for the Almoner of starving Belgium -- A hero in the house of truth -- Inconsolable in the hall of mirrors -- An engineer at the opera -- Meddling with God's economy -- Hoover versus a botched civilization -- Scandal, embarrassment, and the little feller -- Sleepless in good times -- "The wonder boy" -- "Giving genius its chance" -- "He didn't know where the votes came from" -- Nothing to fear but fear itself -- Just when we thought it was over -- "It seemed like the end of the world" -- The president in his fighting clothes -- "A human creature desperately hurt and pained" -- Through the abyss in a Buick -- Father of the new conservatism -- Reborn in a darker world -- Epilogue : "I admire a lot in Hoover's career."…”Description: xvii, 728 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 25 cm.
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Fatal flood
Published: WGBH Educational Foundation ; Distributed by PBS Home Video, 2005Description: 1 videodisc (60 min.) : sound, color with black and white sequences ; 4 3/4 in.Video DVD