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Nightmare's Fairy Tale: A Young Refugee's Home Fronts, 1938–1948 - Gerd Korman - Google Books
http://books.google.de/books?id=Dt-P4WVnK1UC&pg=PA25&lpg=PA25&dq=Oswald+Laufer&source=bl&ots=yxespyybUP&sig=JCl1obTkfsyHj2UpGJ6v
Fleeing the Nazis in the months before World War II, the Korman family scattered from a Polish refugee camp with the hope of reuniting in America. The father sailed to Cuba on the ill-fated St. Louis; the mother left for the United States after sending her…
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Black Angel: The Life of Arshile Gorky - Nouritza Matossian - Google Books
https://books.google.de/books?id=SkkjCQAAQBAJ&pg=PR14&dq=Douglas+John+Connah&hl=de&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjDnLLyu9LZAhVFzaQKHSlxCYo4ChC
In this first full-scale biography of the artist Robert Hughes called "a kind of Bridge of Sighs between Surrealism and America," Nouritza Matossian charts the life of Arshile Gorky, one of the most mysterious of major twentieth-century artists.…
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I May Be Some Time: Ice and the English Imagination - Francis Spufford - Google Books
http://books.google.de/books?id=ljw65um5VyEC&printsec=frontcover&dq=I+May+Be+Some+Time&hl=de&ei=K9exTqGcDoiY8gO-gZ24AQ&sa=X&oi=b
I May Be Some Time is a richly engrossing cultural history of the human obsession with ice, Eskimos, and polar exploration. When Captain Scott died on his way back from the South Pole, history became a myth embedded in both the public and private…
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Parthenope.co.de - Ihr Parthenope Shop
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Remembering Parthenope als eBook Download von, Naples als Buch von Clara Erskine Clement, The Crystal Crux: Betrayal, Book 1 , Hörbuch, Digital, 1, 853min, How the Peasant Owner Lives in Parts of France, Germany, Italy, Russia (Classic Reprint) als Buch…
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Hypatia of Alexandria - Maria Dzielska - Google Books
http://books.google.de/books?id=UCkgLBCh2m0C&pg=PA42&lpg=PA42&dq=Garzya+143+hypatia&source=bl&ots=80ZQ_SqO0A&sig=jefGUhWqvvISL4r
Hypatia—brilliant mathematician, eloquent Neoplatonist, and a woman renowned for her beauty—was brutally murdered by a mob of Christians in Alexandria in 415. She has been a legend ever since. In this engrossing book, Maria Dzielska searches behind the…
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Slumming: Sexual and Racial Encounters in American Nightlife, 1885-1940 - Chad Heap - Google Books
http://books.google.de/books?id=Pcs6T-NVz0wC&pg=PA197&dq=%22Black++and+tan%22+sex&hl=de&sa=X&ei=EJ9fT8zwN9HhtQaovuS7CQ&ved=0CDoQ
During Prohibition, “Harlem was the ‘in’ place to go for music and booze,” recalled the African American chanteuse Bricktop. “Every night the limousines pulled up to the corner,” and out spilled affluent whites, looking for a good time, great jazz, and the…
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Error, Misuse, Failure: Object Lessons from the English Renaissance - Julian Yates - Google Books
https://books.google.de/books?id=hzfCeZspGHIC&pg=PA187&dq=Harvington+hall#v=onepage
If certain objects work well, no one notices them. As with "black boxes, " their success may be gauged by their relative invisibility -- and this was the indirect goal of the objects that Julian Yates considers here: the portrait miniature, the relic, the…