George Grosz, 1893-1959 by Kranzfelder, Ivo

Table of Contents: “…Alone with my doppelgangers -- Pulp magazines and plaster casts -- Oh that city feeling -- Revolution and dada -- Weapons and straws -- Critical realism and disillusionment -- Dreams and reality -- George Grosz 1893-1959: a chronology.…”


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Simón Bolívar : history and myth by Zeuske, Michael

Table of Contents: “…Introduction : Dimensions of the Bolívar myth -- Historical foundations: constructions of a nation : Elites without a nation or a myth ; Discourses of the nation, slave revolts, and caste society ; Caudillos and Bolívar revenants: nineteenth-century experiments with the state ; The conservative and the revolutionary Bolívar in the "age of extremes" -- Simón Bolívar: the man and the myth : The glorious Bolívar family ; In search of the ancestors ; The Bolívars' fortune ; The conservative-romantic Bolívar myth ; From the "Marxist" to the "Democratic" Bolívar and back -- Excursus: "Humboldt and Bolívar": on a conversation that may never have taken place : Postscript, April 2012 -- Instead of a conclusion : The "Chavist Bolívar."…”


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Adrian Frutiger typefaces : the complete works by Frutiger, Adrian, 1928-2015

Table of Contents: “…; The digital versions ; Imitations of Frutiger ; The colour of a typeface ; Typeface comparison ; Back to signage type: Astra Frutiger -- Glypha ; Icone ; Breughel ; Dolmen ; Tiemann ; Versailles ; Linotype Centennial ; Avenir ; Westside ; Vectora ; Linotype Didot ; Herculanum ; Shiseido ; Frutiger capitals ; Rusticana ; Frutiger stones / Frutiger symbols ; Frutiger neonscript ; Nami -- Synopsis of Frutiger-typefaces ; Production of type: Handsetting ; Lumitype photosetting ; Machine setting: single-letter casting ; Monophoto photosetting ; Machine setting: line-casting ; OCR technology ; Strike-on composition ; Transfer type ; Linofilm photosetting ; CRT setting ; Lasersetting ; Digital typesetting -- Logos and wordmarks.…”


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Goethe : life as a work of art by Safranski, Rüdiger

Table of Contents: “…-- The Italian journey : no forwarding address -- Return to Weimar -- The revolution, this most terrible of all events -- Goethe gathers his circle around him -- Writing for Die Horen -- Herrmann and Dorothea -- The clogged springs of poetry -- Among the romantics -- Mourning Schiller -- Pandora or Goethe's double mask -- Theater squabble : a first clash with Karoline Jagemann -- Leave-takings : Anna Amalia and Goethe's mother -- Political events cast long shadows -- West-eastern divan and poetry as a life force -- Memory work -- Faust : the work of a lifetime finished at last -- Eckermann and Goethe's other assistants -- Final reflection : becoming who you are.…”


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Nick Cave : mercy on me by Kleist, Reinhard, 1970-

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My opposition : the diary of Friedrich Kellner - a German against the Third Reich by Kellner, Friedrich, 1885-1970

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Too big for a single mind : how the greatest generation of physicists uncovered the quantum world by Hürter, Tobias

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Maybe Esther : a family story by Petrowskaja, Katja, 1970-

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I knew Dietrich Bonhoeffer.

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