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Eva and Otto : Resistance, Refugees, and Love in the Time of Hitler / by Pfister, Thomas L., 1948-, Pfister, Peter J., 1948-, Pfister, Katherine D., 1946-

Table of Contents: “…Visas -- Help from Eleanor Roosevelt and Other Americans -- Three Crucial Meetings on December 27, -- 1940 Correspondence -- Eva's Other Activities before the End of -- Further Pleas to Help Otto and Other Refugees -- Otto's Wait for Visa in Southern France -- Otto's Escape to America -- Eva's Defense of Her Decision to Marry Otto -- Part VI. …”
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Eva and Otto : Resistance, Refugees, and Love in the Time of Hitler / by Pfister, Thomas L., 1948-, Pfister, Peter J., 1948-, Pfister, Katherine D., 1946-

Table of Contents: “…Visas -- Help from Eleanor Roosevelt and Other Americans -- Three Crucial Meetings on December 27, -- 1940 Correspondence -- Eva's Other Activities before the End of -- Further Pleas to Help Otto and Other Refugees -- Otto's Wait for Visa in Southern France -- Otto's Escape to America -- Eva's Defense of Her Decision to Marry Otto -- Part VI. …”
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Market rebels how activists make or break radical innovations / by Rao, Hayagreeva, 1959-

Table of Contents: “…: the cultural acceptance of the car in America -- Evange-ale-ists and the renaissance of microbrewing -- The French revolution : collective action and the nouvelle cuisine innovation -- Show me the money : shareholder activism and investor rights -- Chain reaction : the enactment and repeal of anti-chain store laws -- Drug wars : how the anti-biotechnology movement penetrated German pharmaceutical firms and prevented technology commercialization -- From exit to voice : advice for activists.…”
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Market rebels how activists make or break radical innovations / by Rao, Hayagreeva, 1959-

Table of Contents: “…: the cultural acceptance of the car in America -- Evange-ale-ists and the renaissance of microbrewing -- The French revolution : collective action and the nouvelle cuisine innovation -- Show me the money : shareholder activism and investor rights -- Chain reaction : the enactment and repeal of anti-chain store laws -- Drug wars : how the anti-biotechnology movement penetrated German pharmaceutical firms and prevented technology commercialization -- From exit to voice : advice for activists.…”
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Five days in October the Lost Battalion of World War I / by Ferrell, Robert H.

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The ruins : a novel / by Smith, Scott, 1965 July 13-

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The ruins : a novel / by Smith, Scott, 1965 July 13-

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Five days in October the Lost Battalion of World War I / by Ferrell, Robert H.

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Theodor W. Adorno one last genius / by Claussen, Detlev

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Theodor W. Adorno one last genius / by Claussen, Detlev

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“Who Is A Jew?" : Reflections on History, Religion, and Culture /

Table of Contents: “…Cover; Copyright; Table of Contents; Acknowledgments; Editor's Introduction; Contributors; Traces of Race: Defining Jewishness in America; It's All in the Memes; Judging and Protecting Jewish Identity in Shaare Tefila Congregation v. …”
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“Who Is A Jew?" : Reflections on History, Religion, and Culture /

Table of Contents: “…Cover; Copyright; Table of Contents; Acknowledgments; Editor's Introduction; Contributors; Traces of Race: Defining Jewishness in America; It's All in the Memes; Judging and Protecting Jewish Identity in Shaare Tefila Congregation v. …”
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The films of Edgar G. Ulmer

Table of Contents: “…Ulmer / Noah Isenberg -- The search for community / John Belton -- On the graveyards of Europe: the horror of modernism in The black cat / Herbert Schwaab -- From nine to nine / DJ Turner -- Exile on 125th Street: Germans, Jews, and Africans: Americans in Moon over Harlem / Jonathan Skolnik -- Forging the new Jew: Ulmer's Yiddish films / Vincent Brook -- When you get to the fork, take it: from Ulmer's Yiddish cinema to Woody Allen / Miriam Strube -- A world destroyed by gold: shared allegories of capital in Wagner's Ring and Ulmer's Isle of forgotten sins / Andrew Repasky McElhinney -- Ulmer and the noir femme fatale / Alena Smieskova -- Detour's detour / David Kalat -- Fantasy and failure in Strange illusion / Hugh S. …”
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The films of Edgar G. Ulmer

Table of Contents: “…Ulmer / Noah Isenberg -- The search for community / John Belton -- On the graveyards of Europe: the horror of modernism in The black cat / Herbert Schwaab -- From nine to nine / DJ Turner -- Exile on 125th Street: Germans, Jews, and Africans: Americans in Moon over Harlem / Jonathan Skolnik -- Forging the new Jew: Ulmer's Yiddish films / Vincent Brook -- When you get to the fork, take it: from Ulmer's Yiddish cinema to Woody Allen / Miriam Strube -- A world destroyed by gold: shared allegories of capital in Wagner's Ring and Ulmer's Isle of forgotten sins / Andrew Repasky McElhinney -- Ulmer and the noir femme fatale / Alena Smieskova -- Detour's detour / David Kalat -- Fantasy and failure in Strange illusion / Hugh S. …”
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Castles, battles, & bombs how economics explains military history / by Brauer, Jurgen, 1957-

Table of Contents: “…Preface -- Economics -- Economics -- Principle I: Opportunity cost -- Principle II: Expected marginal costs and benefits -- Principle III: Substitution -- Principle IV: Diminishing marginal returns -- Principle V: asymmetric information and hidden characteristics -- Principle VI: Hidden actions and incentive alignments -- Conclusion: economics--and military history -- The high Middle Ages, 1000-1300: The case of the medieval castle and the opportunity cost of warfare -- Opportunity cost and warfare -- The ubiquity of castles -- The cost of castling -- The advantages of castles -- The cost of armies -- Castle building and the other principles of economics -- Conclusion -- The Renaissance, 1300-1600: the case of the condottieri and the military labor market -- The principal-agent problem -- Demand, supply, and recruitment -- Contracts and pay -- Control and contract evolution -- The development of permanent armies -- Condottieri and the other principles of economics -- Conclusion -- The age of battle, 1618-1815: the case of costs, benefits, and the decision to offer battle -- Expected marginal costs and benefits of battle -- The 1600s: Gustavus Adolphus and Raimondo de Montecuccoli -- The 1700s: Marlborough, de Saxe, and Frederick the Great -- Napoleonic warfare -- The age of battle and the other principles of economics -- Conclusion -- The age of revolution, 1789-1914: the case of the American Civil War and the economics of information asymmetry -- Information and warfare -- North, South, and the search for information -- Major Eastern campaigns through Gettysburg -- Grant in Virginia -- The American Civil War and the other principles of economics -- Conclusion -- The age of the world wars, 1914-1945: the case of diminishing marginal returns to the strategic bombing of Germany in World War II -- A strategic bombing production function -- Bombing German war production -- Bombing the supply chain and the civilian economy -- Bombing German morale -- Assessing the effect of strategic bombing -- Strategic bombing and the other principles of economics -- Conclusion -- The age of the Cold War, 1945-1991: the case of capital-labor substitution and France's Force de Frappe -- History of the Force de Frappe -- The force post-De Gaulle -- Justifying the force -- The force's effect on France's conventional arms -- Substituting nuclear for conventional forces -- The Force de Frappe and the other principles of economics -- Conclusion -- Economics and military history in the twenty-first century -- Economics of terrorism -- Economics of military manpower -- Economics of private military companies -- Economics, historiography, and military history -- Conclusion -- Notes -- References -- Index.…”
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Castles, battles, & bombs how economics explains military history / by Brauer, Jurgen, 1957-

Table of Contents: “…Preface -- Economics -- Economics -- Principle I: Opportunity cost -- Principle II: Expected marginal costs and benefits -- Principle III: Substitution -- Principle IV: Diminishing marginal returns -- Principle V: asymmetric information and hidden characteristics -- Principle VI: Hidden actions and incentive alignments -- Conclusion: economics--and military history -- The high Middle Ages, 1000-1300: The case of the medieval castle and the opportunity cost of warfare -- Opportunity cost and warfare -- The ubiquity of castles -- The cost of castling -- The advantages of castles -- The cost of armies -- Castle building and the other principles of economics -- Conclusion -- The Renaissance, 1300-1600: the case of the condottieri and the military labor market -- The principal-agent problem -- Demand, supply, and recruitment -- Contracts and pay -- Control and contract evolution -- The development of permanent armies -- Condottieri and the other principles of economics -- Conclusion -- The age of battle, 1618-1815: the case of costs, benefits, and the decision to offer battle -- Expected marginal costs and benefits of battle -- The 1600s: Gustavus Adolphus and Raimondo de Montecuccoli -- The 1700s: Marlborough, de Saxe, and Frederick the Great -- Napoleonic warfare -- The age of battle and the other principles of economics -- Conclusion -- The age of revolution, 1789-1914: the case of the American Civil War and the economics of information asymmetry -- Information and warfare -- North, South, and the search for information -- Major Eastern campaigns through Gettysburg -- Grant in Virginia -- The American Civil War and the other principles of economics -- Conclusion -- The age of the world wars, 1914-1945: the case of diminishing marginal returns to the strategic bombing of Germany in World War II -- A strategic bombing production function -- Bombing German war production -- Bombing the supply chain and the civilian economy -- Bombing German morale -- Assessing the effect of strategic bombing -- Strategic bombing and the other principles of economics -- Conclusion -- The age of the Cold War, 1945-1991: the case of capital-labor substitution and France's Force de Frappe -- History of the Force de Frappe -- The force post-De Gaulle -- Justifying the force -- The force's effect on France's conventional arms -- Substituting nuclear for conventional forces -- The Force de Frappe and the other principles of economics -- Conclusion -- Economics and military history in the twenty-first century -- Economics of terrorism -- Economics of military manpower -- Economics of private military companies -- Economics, historiography, and military history -- Conclusion -- Notes -- References -- Index.…”
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Saving Europe how national politics nearly destroyed the euro / by Bastasin, Carlo, 1959-

Table of Contents: “…The origin of mistrust -- The secrets behind the banks -- Europe's awkward ambitions to change the world -- Too different for one policy -- First doubts about the euro -- The American crisis becomes the European crisis -- The European central bank's first rescue of the states -- Karlsruhe, ruling the world from the province -- The well-known secret of the Greek tragedy -- Let Greece default -- Bringing the euro to the brink, in order to save it -- Sell your islands -- Contagion -- Dr. …”
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Saving Europe how national politics nearly destroyed the euro / by Bastasin, Carlo, 1959-

Table of Contents: “…The origin of mistrust -- The secrets behind the banks -- Europe's awkward ambitions to change the world -- Too different for one policy -- First doubts about the euro -- The American crisis becomes the European crisis -- The European central bank's first rescue of the states -- Karlsruhe, ruling the world from the province -- The well-known secret of the Greek tragedy -- Let Greece default -- Bringing the euro to the brink, in order to save it -- Sell your islands -- Contagion -- Dr. …”
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Jewish theatre a global view /

Table of Contents: “…Steinlauf -- The Polish Shulamis : Jewish drama on the Polish stage in the late 19th-early 20th centuries / Anna Kuligowska-Korzeniewska -- Jewish languages and Jewish characters in Giovan Battista Andreini's Lo schiavetto / Paula Bertolone -- "The Christian will turn Hebrew" : converting Shylock on stage / Shaul Bassi -- Philosemitism on the London stage : Sydney Grundy's An old Jew / Edna Nahshon -- Jewish self-presentation and the "Jewish question" on the German stage from 1900 to 1930 / Hans-Peter Bayerdörfer -- Popular Jewish drama in Vienna in the 1920s / Brigitte Dalinger -- On arriving front and center : American Jewish identity on the American stage / Ellen Schiff -- Generational shifts in American Jewish theatre / Linda Ben-Zvi -- Staying ungooselike : the Holocaust and the theatre of choice / Robert Skloot -- Job's soul and Otto Weininger's torments : Jewish themes in the theatre of Hanoch Levin and Yehoshua Sobol / Freddie Rokem -- Abraham's scene (introductory essay) / Paolo Puppa -- Abraham (dramatic monologue) / Paolo Puppa.…”
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Jewish theatre a global view /

Table of Contents: “…Steinlauf -- The Polish Shulamis : Jewish drama on the Polish stage in the late 19th-early 20th centuries / Anna Kuligowska-Korzeniewska -- Jewish languages and Jewish characters in Giovan Battista Andreini's Lo schiavetto / Paula Bertolone -- "The Christian will turn Hebrew" : converting Shylock on stage / Shaul Bassi -- Philosemitism on the London stage : Sydney Grundy's An old Jew / Edna Nahshon -- Jewish self-presentation and the "Jewish question" on the German stage from 1900 to 1930 / Hans-Peter Bayerdörfer -- Popular Jewish drama in Vienna in the 1920s / Brigitte Dalinger -- On arriving front and center : American Jewish identity on the American stage / Ellen Schiff -- Generational shifts in American Jewish theatre / Linda Ben-Zvi -- Staying ungooselike : the Holocaust and the theatre of choice / Robert Skloot -- Job's soul and Otto Weininger's torments : Jewish themes in the theatre of Hanoch Levin and Yehoshua Sobol / Freddie Rokem -- Abraham's scene (introductory essay) / Paolo Puppa -- Abraham (dramatic monologue) / Paolo Puppa.…”
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