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Olen Steinhauer: Die Spinne - ToGos Kriminalkolumne
http://www.togohlis.de/03steinhauer_spinne.htm
Tobias Gohlis über Olen Steinhauer: Die Spinne
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Stalin's Spy: Richard Sorge and the Tokyo Espionage Ring - Robert Whymant - Google Books
http://books.google.de/books?id=r2w06kuhk7AC&pg=PA142
This is the true story of a remarkable man who pulled off a seemingly impossible espionage mission in Tokyo, before and during World War II. Richard Sorge, born to a Russian mother and a German father, ran a network of Japanese and Europeans under the…
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Red Storm on the Reich: The Soviet March on Germany, 1945 - Christopher Duffy - Google Books
http://books.google.de/books?id=KvQNAAAAQAAJ
The Eastern Front witnessed the critical battles between the German and Russian armies which won and lost the Second World War. In Red Storm on the Reich, Christopher Duffy uncovers a military campaign of unprecedented scale and ferocity during which…
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The Black Death and the Transformation of the West - David Herlihy - Google Books
http://books.google.de/books/about/The_Black_Death_and_the_Transformation_o.html?id=J5XeBQwrjLwC&redir_esc=y
The Black Death was the great watershed in medieval history. In this compact book, David Herlihy makes bold yet subtle and subversive inquiries that challenge historical thinking about this disastrous period. As in a finely tuned detective story, he…
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The Speed of Sound: Hollywood and the Talkie Revolution 1926-1930 - Scott Eyman - Google Books
http://books.google.de/books?id=Vc-SjHBM-DcC&pg=PA102
It was the end of an era. It was a turbulent, colorful, and altogether remarkable period, four short years in which America’s most popular industry reinvented itself. Here is the epic story of the transition from silent films to talkies, that moment when…
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Selling 'em by the Sack: White Castle and the Creation of American Food - David G. Hogan - Google Books
http://books.google.de/books?id=PT6s4ZbznHMC&pg=PA17&dq=hotdog+feltman+1867&hl=de&sa=X&ei=W_JHU7mmDOLMygPYiYCwDQ&ved=0CGcQ6AEwBA
In the wake of World War I, the hamburger was still considered a disreputable and undesirable food. Yet by 1930 Americans in every corner of the country accepted the hamburger as a mainstream meal and eventually made it a staple of their diet. The…
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The Therapy of Desire: Theory and Practice in Hellenistic Ethics - Martha Craven Nussbaum - Google Books
http://books.google.de/books?id=oUWHyDCbXr0C&dq=Martha+Nussbaum+%22Therapy+of+Desire%22&printsec=frontcover&source=bn&hl=de&ei=V
The Epicureans, Skeptics, and Stoics practiced philosophy not as a detached intellectual discipline, but as a worldly art of grappling with issues of daily and urgent human significance: the fear of death, love and sexuality, anger and aggression. Like…
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The Speed of Sound: Hollywood and the Talkie Revolution 1926-1930 - Scott Eyman - Google Books
http://books.google.de/books?id=Vc-SjHBM-DcC
It was the end of an era. It was a turbulent, colorful, and altogether remarkable period, four short years in which America’s most popular industry reinvented itself. Here is the epic story of the transition from silent films to talkies, that moment when…
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The Vulnerable Observer: Anthropology that Breaks Your Heart - Ruth Behar - Google Books
https://books.google.de/books?id=ijyAm4HB_NQC
In classical anthropology, subjects of study are seen as vulnerable while their observers are instructed to remain detached and objective. Yet with the emergence during the last decade of a group of anthropologists with recognizable connections to the…
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The Great Arab Conquests: How the Spread of Islam Changed the World We Live In - Hugh Kennedy - Google Books
https://books.google.de/books?id=nV28i9Ticz0C
Today's Arab world was created at breathtaking speed. In just over one hundred years following the death of Mohammed in 632, Arabs had subjugated a territory with an east-west expanse greater than the Roman Empire, and they did it in about one-half the…