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While America Watches: Televising the Holocaust - Jeffrey Shandler - Google Books
http://books.google.de/books?id=GwAae5shN3MC&pg=PT137#v=onepage&q&f=false
The Holocaust holds a unique place in American public culture, and, as Jeffrey Shandler argues in While America Watches, it is television, more than any other medium, that has brought the Holocaust into our homes, our hearts, and our minds. Much has been…
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Falling in Love: Why We Choose the Lovers We Choose - Ayala Malach Pines - Google Books
http://books.google.de/books?id=OqabifZCJekC&lpg=PA35&dq=Relationship%20of%20Waist-to-Hip%20Ratio%20Attractiveness&pg=PA35#v=one
How mystical is love really? Sought after, capable of sending us to emotional extremes from abysmal misery to irrepressible joy, love is often perceived as a force beyond mortal control. Is it as dumb, blind or arbitrary as we often think, and are we…
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While America Watches: Televising the Holocaust - Jeffrey Shandler - Google Books
http://books.google.de/books?id=GwAae5shN3MC&pg=PT170#v=onepage&q&f=false
The Holocaust holds a unique place in American public culture, and, as Jeffrey Shandler argues in While America Watches, it is television, more than any other medium, that has brought the Holocaust into our homes, our hearts, and our minds. Much has been…
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Ninety Degrees North: The Quest for the North Pole - Fergus Fleming - Google Books
https://books.google.de/books?id=qIikAUYyRcUC
In the nineteenth century, theories about the North Pole ran rampant. Was it an open sea? Was it a portal to new worlds within the globe? Or was it just a wilderness of ice? When Sir John Franklin disappeared in the Arctic in 1845, explorers decided it was…
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While America Watches: Televising the Holocaust - Jeffrey Shandler - Google Books
http://books.google.de/books?id=GwAae5shN3MC&pg=PT239#v=onepage&q&f=false
The Holocaust holds a unique place in American public culture, and, as Jeffrey Shandler argues in While America Watches, it is television, more than any other medium, that has brought the Holocaust into our homes, our hearts, and our minds. Much has been…
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Looking for the Lost: Journeys Through a Vanishing Japan - Alan Booth - Google Books
http://books.google.de/books?id=0OC1IhMYE0cC&lpg=PA42&dq=tsushima%20genemon&pg=PA42#v=onepage&q&f=false
A VIBRANT, MEDITATIVE WALK IN SEARCH OF THE SOUL OF JAPAN Traveling by foot through mountains and villages, Alan Booth found a Japan far removed from the stereotypes familiar to Westerners. Whether retracing the footsteps of ancient warriors or detailing…
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Diamonds, Gold, and War: The British, the Boers, and the Making of South Africa - Martin Meredith - Google Books
http://books.google.de/books?id=HWjxlzka9xMC&pg=PA187&lpg=PA187&dq=%22Hermann+Eckstein%22+south+africa&source=bl&ots=hL1PUl2aNF&
Southern Africa was once regarded as a worthless jumble of British colonies, Boer republics, and African chiefdoms, a troublesome region of little interest to the outside world. But then prospectors chanced upon the world's richest deposits of diamonds and…
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Collision: GM, Toyota, Volkswagen and the race to own the 21st century - Maryann Keller - Google Books
https://books.google.de/books?id=Dsi1AAAAIAAJ&dq=Halle%2B54
Auto industry analyst Keller believes that no nation can be great unless it has a thriving auto industry, and the world's biggest car makers--General Motors, Toyota, and Volkswagen--are fighting for their lives at the end of the 20th century. Major review…
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The Accidental Empire: Israel and the Birth of the Settlements, 1967-1977 - Gershom Gorenberg - Google Books
http://books.google.de/books?id=ZpYvMW4PYuMC&pg=PA51&lpg=PA51&dq=Yaakov+Shimshon+Shapira&source=bl&ots=qyqpMkUtkU&sig=jRHKs0XoHn
"Remarkably insightful . . . A groundbreaking revision that deserves to reframe the entire debate . . . It soars."—The New York Times Book ReviewIn The Accidental Empire, Gershom Gorenberg examines the strange birth of the settler movement in the ten years…
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You Only Rock Once: My Life in Music - Jerry Blavat - Google Books
http://books.google.de/books?id=CmD_vPcWVqoC&pg=PA153&dq=isley+brothers+twist+and+shout&hl=de&sa=X&ei=JJrbUefOF4KktAaJhIDADg&ved
The long-awaited autobiography of entertainment icon Jerry Blavat, You Only Rock Once is the wildly entertaining and unfiltered story of the man whose career began at the age of 13 on the TV dance show Bandstand and became a music legend. Lifelong…