Klaus Mann, writer of Mephisto and the oldest son of Nobel Prize winner Thomas Mann, describes the life of intellectuals in Europe before the Nazi seizure of power, then moves on to depict the restless existence of the often bohemian literary circles of writers in Paris, Zurich, Amsterdam, New York, and Hollywood in the 30s and 40s.

The Turning Point: Thirty-Five Years in this Century, the Autobiography of Klaus Mann

Biographies & Memoirs

MANN, Klaus

Arts & Literature

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Between Pit and Pedestal: Women in the Middle Ages

"Crusader and concubine, laundress and troubadour, mystic and midwife and miniaturist, beguine and bondwoman and the bersatrix rocking the cradle of kings- all find their rightful place in this bountiful compendium. With vast resourcefulness and a lively (and often irreverent) eye for the creaturely real, the authors make it impossible to sustain any last lingering illusions about the Middle Ages being 'a man's world.' "-John Bugge, Emory University

History

Marty Newman Williams

Anne Echols

Europe

This work focuses on Chicago from 1892-1905, describing the forces that had remodelled America from the rural society of Lincoln's day. Here are the business leaders, labour organizers and politicians, and new immigrants, all exposing the follies of a generation lusting for material success.

Altgeld's America: The Lincoln Ideal Versus Changing Realities

Ginger, Ray

Americas

The book includes two stories by Heinrich Heine 1. The Rabbi of Bacherach 2. Shyllock and 3.the poem Hebrew Medoldies This book is illustrated with the lithographs of Max Liebermann(1847-1935), one of of the most prominent turn-of-the-century European painters. He designed this cycle of drawings for the 1923 bibliophile edition of The Rabbi of Bacherach.It is considered an outstandingexample of book illustration.

Rabbi of Bacherach and Other Stories (English and German Edition)

Literature & Fiction

HEINE, HEINRICH

Poetry

This outstanding family novel, set in a Jewish neighborhood of Chicago, is "the fullest articulation of the generational conflict between Jewish fathers and [sins]," writes Alexander Bloom in his 1986 book Prodigal Sons. The central character, a 15-year-old boy in rebellion against the petit bourgeois values of his family, engineers an affair between his flamboyant aunt and his easy-going Gentile cousin by marriage. He then leaves his father and moves into the house of this new couple, where he experiences the excitement and problems of an open relationship.

Passage From Home (Masterworks of Modern Jewish Writing Series)

Rosenfeld, Isaac

Contemporary

The Japanese Supreme Court: Constitutional Policies

Hiroshi Itoh

Rules & Procedures

"These are the memoirs of a black woman who was born a slave, who had the good fortune to gain her freedom early in the war, with the education and ability to observe and the will to recall in later years the significance of the events in which she was a vigorous participant. Susie King Taylor's recollections are invaluable for those who wish to understand the Civil War from the black woman's point of view. ... A treasure in the light of today's feminist movement." (from the Introduction by Willie Lee Rose)

A Black Women's Civil War Memoirs

Susie King Taylor

Community & Culture

Written while the writers were enslaved or had recently escaped, the words recorded here express complexity and diversity of thought and feeling about slavery and being black. Blacks in Bondage is a landmark document in understanding the human side of history.

Blacks in Bondage: Letters of American Slaves

Children's Books

Biographies

The colorful life and activities of Dr. Moritz Hochschild in Latin America between 1911 and 1965 are the center of the first biography of the man, an important mining entrepreneur and ore buyer, and his companies. Moritz Hochschild became of the infamous ?tin barons? of Bolivia and some people called him the ?genius of evil?; other recognized his significant contributions to the industrial development of South America as an innovator of the mining industries in Chile, Bolivia, Peru, and Brazil.

Dr. Moritz (Don Mauricio) Hochschild, 1881-1965: The Man and His Companies, A German Jewish Mining Entrepreneur in South America (Berliner Lateinamerika-Forschungen)

Business & Money

Helmut Waszkis

Economics

The first of these volumes contains a critical examination of the evolution of feminine prose during the 19th century.

Las Mujeres Toman La Palabra: Escritura Femenina del Siglo XIX Hispanoamerica (Spanish Edition)

Maria Cristina Arambel-Guiinazu

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