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The Faustian Bargain: The Art World in Nazi Germany - Jonathan Petropoulos - Google Books
http://books.google.de/books?id=PQ-9Hs719SEC&pg=PT194&dq=%22Kajetan+M%C3%BChlmann%22+1958&hl=de&ei=tv-ZTvLOJYjm-gaw75jqBQ&sa=X&o
Nazi art looting has been the subject of enormous international attention in recent years, and the topic of two history bestsellers, Hector Feliciano's The Lost Museum and Lynn Nicholas's The Rape of Europa. But such books leave us wondering: What made…
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Icon of Evil: Hitler's Mufti and the Rise of Radical Islam - David G. Dalin, John F. Rothmann, Alan M. Dershowitz - Google Books
http://books.google.de/books?id=QMts5Z36kjAC&pg=PA169&lpg=PA169&dq=The+Grand+Mufti,+who+has+been+in+Berlin+since+1941,+played+a+
A chilling, fascinating, and nearly forgotten historical figure is resurrected in this riveting work that links the fascism of the last century with the terrorism of our own. Written with vigor and extraordinary access to primary sources in several…
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Not by Politics Alone: The Enduring Influence of the Christian Right - Sara Diamond - Google Books
http://books.google.de/books?id=I_4QIcEBDmUC&dq=Not+by+Politics+Alone.+The+Enduring+Influence+of+the+Christian+Right&source=gbs_
In this incisive work, Sara Diamond expands our understanding of the Christian Right beyond what is commonly known about its electoral clout, shedding light on the rarely seen boundaries and intersections where politics and culture converge. The book…
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Bestseller beschreibt Aufstieg und Wirken der Evangelikalen | hpd
https://hpd.de/artikel/bestseller-beschreibt-aufstieg-und-wirken-evangelikalen-14287
Die USA erleben unter Donald Trump einen konservativen Rollback sondergleichen, der wenig verdeckt von christlichen Fundamentalisten vorangetrieben wird.
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A History of the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict, Second Edition - Mark Tessler - Google Books
https://books.google.de/books?id=84ehDAAAQBAJ
Mark Tessler's highly praised, comprehensive, and balanced history of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict from the earliest times to the present—updated through the first years of the 21st century—provides a constructive framework for understanding recent…
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Mad Princes of Renaissance Germany - H. C. Erik Midelfort - Google Books
http://books.google.de/books?id=dDu1OHSZ1_8C&pg=PA148
Early in 1582 his princely grace Duke Wilhelm the Younger of Braunschweig-Luneburg took to roaming the streets at night, shooting off pistols at imaginary enemies and shouting into the dark. His advisers ordered him confined, but in August of that year he…
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The Diamond Makers - Robert M. Hazen - Google Books
http://books.google.de/books/about/The_Diamond_Makers.html?id=fNJQok6N9_MC&redir_esc=y
Since time immemorial, we have treasured diamonds for their exquisite beauty and unrivaled hardness. Yet, most of the earth's diamonds lie deep underground and totally unaccessible to us--if only we knew how to fabricate them! In The Diamond Makers Robert…
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A Memoir of Misfortune - Xiaokang Su - Google Books
https://books.google.de/books?id=w06k_ya_3ewC&dq=inauthor:%22Xiaokang+Su%22&hl=de&source=gbs_navlinks_s
Su Xiaokang had faced calamity before: in 1989, after the Tiananmen Square massacre, he became the object of a government manhunt and was forced to flee China, leaving behind his wife and young son. Eventually his family was allowed to join him in exile in…
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A First Rate Tragedy: Robert Falcon Scott and the Race to the South Pole - Diana Preston - Google Books
https://books.google.de/books?id=iXLkU2c8_QAC
On November 12, 1912, a rescue team trekking across Antarctica's Great Ice Barrier finally found what they sought -- the snow-covered tent of the British explorer Robert Falcon Scott. Inside, they made a grim discovery: Scott's frozen body lay between…
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Mission Al-Jazeera: Build a Bridge, Seek the Truth, Change the World - Josh Rushing - Google Books
https://books.google.de/books?id=rGAoyk2p2yoC
Blending his riveting personal story with innovative ideas about how to win the war on terror, former marine turned Al Jazeera reporter Josh Rushing addresses all the issues he was not allowed to talk about when he was in uniform. If we are to win the war…