Albrecht: 397 books
From Barnum & Bailey to Feld
The Creative Evolution of the Greatest Show on Earth
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2014
Since its inception in 1872, the Greatest Show on Earth has continually transformed itself to meet changing tastes and cultural shifts. Over the course of its long existence, it has been at various times a biblical spectacle and historical pageant, a ceremonial introduction to the peoples and cultures...
The Vanished Musicians
Jewish Refugees in Australia
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2016
About 9,000 Jewish refugees from Nazi Germany settled in Australia between 1933 and 1945, a small fraction of the hundreds of thousands who fled. Although initially greeted with a mixed reception as «enemy aliens», some of these refugees remained and made a significant impact on multicultural Australia....
by Albrecht Gralle
Language: German
Release Date: October 29, 2016
Language: German
Release Date: October 29, 2016
Ein Mädchen zwischen zwei Welten:
Aitulf, der Diakon des Bischofs von Trier, hat die junge Agnes, die Tochter verstorbener Freunde, an Kindes statt angenommen. Mit einer Gruppe von Händlern reisen die beiden von Trier nach Andernach, wo die 15jährige Agnes in ein Kloster eintreten will.
Doch in...
The Forest in Medieval German Literature
Ecocritical Readings from a Historical Perspective
Language: English
Release Date: June 3, 2015
By pursuing an ecocritical reading, The Forest in Medieval German Literature examines passages in medieval German texts where protagonists operated in the forest and found themselves either in conflictual situations or in refuge. By probing the way the individual authors dealt with the forest, illustrating...
by Michael Mario Albrecht, Osei Alleyne, Francois Allard-Huver
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2018
Black Mirror is The Twilight Zone of the twenty-first century. Already a philosophical classic, the series echoes the angst of an era, a civilization and consciousness fully engulfed in the 24/7 media spectacle spanning the planet. With clever plots and existential themes, Black Mirror presents near-futures...
Seelenfeuer
Geschichten und Gedichte über das ganz große Gefühl
Language: German
Release Date: May 20, 2012
. über die Liebe! Geschichten und Gedichte, geschrieben von Frauen und Männern, die die Geschehnisse ihres Herzens, ihrer Phantasie, ihrer Erlebnisse und ihre Gefühle zu Papier gebracht haben. Ein unvergleichliches Kaleidoskop an Emotionen, arrangiert zu einem wunderbaren Strauß von Sinnlichkeit...
by Albrecht Bartsch
Language: English
Release Date: June 7, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: June 7, 2012
While still a child in Germany during World War II, Al Bartsch and his family escaped the horror of the battlefield and the advancing Soviet army. Losing everything they owned, they were forced to survive in a destroyed land. Out of the ashes, however, life slowly recovered and he moved on to a new beginning...
Essential Methods for Planning Practitioners
Skills and Techniques for Data Analysis, Visualization, and Communication
Language: English
Release Date: November 17, 2017
This book assembles and organizes a selected range of methods and techniques that every planning practitioner should know to be successful in the contemporary global urban landscape. The book is unique because it links different aspects of the planning/policy-making enterprise with the appropriate...
by Johann Heinrich Andreas Hermann Albrecht Graf von Bernstorff
Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2016
Bernstorff, Johann Heinrich, Graf von, 1862-1939. Content: Germany and the United States before the war; The German propaganda in the United States; Political events preceding the "Lusitania" incident; Economic questions; The so-called German conspiracies; The "Lusitania" incident;...
by Michael Mario Albrecht
Language: English
Release Date: March 3, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: March 3, 2016
Recent years have seen a rise in the popularity and quantity of ’quality’ television programs, many of which featuring complicated versions of masculinity that are informed not only by the women’s movement of the sixties and seventies, but also by several decades of backlash and debate about...
by Greg Albrecht
Language: English
Release Date: July 10, 2004
Language: English
Release Date: July 10, 2004
From any non-Christian point of view, the gospel does not make sense. Grace doesn't make sense. Grace doesn't add up. Why would Jesus come to be one of us, to pay a debt He did not owe, because we owed a debt we could not pay? Why would He do that? Free? No strings? What was in it for Him? Since...
Securing Sierra Leone, 1997-2013
Defence, Diplomacy and Development in Action
Language: English
Release Date: June 19, 2015
Between 1991 and 2002, Sierra Leone was wracked by a devastating civil war and the complete collapse of state institutions. Since then, however, the UK’s contribution to post-war reconstruction has been widely held up as an example of successful stabilisation and state-building – particularly...
Reading Medieval European Women Writers
Strong Literary Witnesses from the Past
Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2016
Despite a modern tendency to describe medieval women as suppressed and marginalized, a critical reading of relevant texts by female poets/writers demonstrates that women all over Europe in the premodern era enjoyed considerable freedom to express themselves and to contribute to the literary discourse...
Alter-globalization in Southern Europe
Anatomy of a Social Movement
Language: English
Release Date: January 28, 2017
Considering the rise of global political instability and subsequent importance of new social movements, this cutting edge book examines the relationship between the alter-globalization movement and political power in Italy, Spain, and Greece. It argues that not only is the movement anti-political,...