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This novella, poetry and these short stories cover the entire range of human emotion.<br><br>The novella, Showbiz, tells the story of an unusual man's great achievements and reach for an ideal, only to have everything he is and has accomplished defeated by the nature of his inner being and those who prey on it. His close friend experiences, in tandem, his own fulfillment and loss. Both are engulfed by the shallowness and cynicism of politics. <br><br>The poems — the 150 sonnets of Affairs — deal with yearning, love, illusion and despair; they are a human cry against the complexities and restrictions of the real world.<br><br>The short tales of Three Stories are tender and dark, observing the hopes and brutalities of men and women.
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A historical novel depicting the struggle of a loyalist woman during and after the revolutionary war, even being forced to leave her home and country. As property of her husband, she contends with him moving in and out of her life while she is left to provide food and shelter for their children in a remote environment.
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Before World War II in Germany, two young boys–-one Jewish one Christian–-play football on the same team, little knowing that their paths will cross again on a war-torn battlefield.<br><br>Max Tepper–-the son of Jewish immigrants. Max becomes the target of anti-Semitism at a very young age. Hopeful for a better future, he enrolls in the university eager to become a physician like his father. But at the outbreak of World War II, things change.Max becomes a partisan fighter and devotes his life to the destruction of Nazism.<br><br>Erich Bauemler–-Personifying Hitler's dream of the perfect German, Erich joins the Hitler Youth at the age of ten. As he becomes more involved with the Nazis, Erich's anti-Semitism grows. After Hitler invades Poland in 1939, Erich is more eager than ever to prove his devotion to Hitler. Now an officer in the Wehrmacht, Erich's reputation becomes legendary.<br><br>But on a battlefield on the Russian front, the two come face-to-face again. Will good triumph over evil, or will the bonds of a long-ago friendship remain steadfast and true?
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Adolph Hitler has assumed power in Germany. A brilliant theoretical and experimental physicist has clandestinely discovered the secret of nuclear energy and the nuclear bomb. No other physicist has come close to this realization. The German physicist is prepared to deliver this secret to his Fuehrer and assure him control of the world. Who is this physicist? How can he be stopped? The intelligence services of two countries combine in an effort to disrupt the physicist's efforts. There is one chance. Time is of the essence. What is there about the physicist's past that can be utilized to try and prevent this threat to the world? Will it succeed? The future of the world hangs in the balance.
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Just uttering the word Jerusalem results in an automatic change in the state of mind for Jews, Christians and Muslims. Their individual and collective history in this city–a holy place for all three of the great monotheistic faiths–has covered over three thousand years but Jerusalem's history extends two millennia farther in the sands of time.<br><br>The Old City of Jerusalem surveys the City of Peace and her inhabitants from the Canaanite Period through the Ottoman Empire in 1917. You will travel from the Pre-Davidic period with stops during the establishment of the Jewish nation, the conquest of Hellenism, the Hasmoneans, Jerusalem as a Roman outpost, the extravagance of the Byzantine period, the capture of the City during the First Muslim period, the Crusader period and once again to Muslim rule. The monograph includes beautiful color plates picturing objects from the various periods.
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When Ermentrude, a young Gothic woman, leaves home to gain her independence, she enters a world of perilous events, romance, and adventure.<br><br>Caught between her love of exploring Middle Earth and the love for her family, Ermentrude struggles with the dangers of life around 175 C.E. Ermentrude is faced with difficult decisions that will determine her future.
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Two thousand years ago, Japan and Korea began a long-standing history of cultural contact. For the Koreans, this meant an invasion in the 1590s spawning four centuries of bitter contempt for Japanese society. The Japanese, however, were culturally enriched, gathering as spoils of war the traditions of Buddhism, elements of Chinese writing, and most valued of all, the removal of master potters from their Korean captives. <br><br>In Japanese Satsuma Pottery, delight in "a tale of two cultures." Follow the Korean potters as they embark on a journey away from their homeland to Naeshirogowa, the Japanese village on the Satsuma peninsula that was to become the heart of Satsuma ceramic production. This monograph includes an informative review of key periods of Satsuma production as well as one man's fourteen-generation lineage of making Satsuma pottery since brought to Japan in 1604.<br><br>The first of fourteen titles in the monographic series, Museographs, that focuses on history, art, myth, legend and story. Each issue contains beautiful color reproductions.
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The author provides a personal, eye-witness account from the mid 1960's through the turn of the 21st century, starting as a graduate student at Moscow State University and ending as the wife of the American Ambassador to Russia.<br><br>"This book is like a script for a documentary spanning four decades when an especially astute and literate observer watched Russia emerge from stagnation and enter a period of dramatic economic, social, and political change and, on many fronts, upheaval." —Strobe Talbott, President of the Brookings Institution.<br><br>"Naomi Collins takes the reader on a fascinating ride through the last forty years of Russia's turbulent history, beginning as a graduate student and ending as the wife of the American Ambassador. Because she writes so well, the ride is always fun, informative and insightful. Read, enjoy, learn!" —Marvin Kalb, Murrow Professor Emeritus, Harvard University.<br><br>"Naomi Collins's book conveys the atmosphere and feel of these changing times, describing settings and scenes, and the people in them, in a pointillist style." —William Taubman, Bertrand Snell Professor of Political Science, Amherst College
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Ее по праву именуют Великой. Ее царствование считается одной из самых успешных и блистательных эпох русской истории. Но потомкам больше памятны не громкие победы «екатерининских орлов» и не грандиозные свершения «золотого века Екатерины», а ее скандальные сексуальные похождения. Вслед за недругами, ославившими императрицу «северной Мессалиной», мы продолжаем пересказывать сальные анекдоты о ее «неслыханных похоти и разврате»: якобы ее любовного списка хватило бы на десятерых; мол, чем старше становилась «матушка-императрица», тем моложе ее фавориты; дескать, своей ненасытностью она свела в могилу не одного юного любовника, вынужденного злоупотреблять «мушками»-афродизиаками, но несмотря на это все красавцы России мечтали попасть в заветную спальню… Так кто же она – сексуальная психопатка на троне? Законченная нимфоманка, не брезговавшая покупать ночные ласки за золото? Или молодые фавориты любили в ней не только властную императрицу, но и зрелую женщину, обладавшую огромным опытом и женской силой, умевшую быть привлекательной и желанной до преклонных лет, невзирая на возраст? Читайте новый роман от автора бестселлеров «Княгиня Ольга», «Клеопатра» и «Нефертити» – поразительную историю последней любви Екатерины Великой! Узнайте женские тайны и секреты обольщения самой прославленной российской императрицы!