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Seymour,Gerald

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The Victorians we meet in this volume range from the capitalists in the top tier of the bourgeoisie, eager to be recognized as gentlemen, to the clerks and craftsmen fearful of sinking into the proletariat. Peter Gay's aim throughout this sweeping work of cultural history is to widen our perception of Victorian bourgeois life, to replace monochromatic generalizations with revealing portraits of men and women in all the colorful complexity of their lives.

Pleasure Wars - The Bourgeois Experience, Victoria To Freud, Volume V

History

PETER GAY

Europe

Special Relativity: The M. I. T. Introductory Physics Series

Science & Math

French, A.P.

Physics

The modern world is undergoing painful transformation. Why the Allies Won looks at the last time democracy was going through such turbulence.\nAs Richard Overy makes clear, the Allied victory in 1945 — though comprehensive — was far from inevitable. By 1942 almost the entire resources of continental Europe were in German hands, and Japan had wiped out the western colonial presence in Asia. Democracy appeared to have had its day.\nOvery provides a re-interpretation of the war through an account of the decisive military campaigns that created the astonishing revival in Allied fortunes. He also explores the deeper factors that determined success and failure: industrial strength, fighting ability, the skills of leaders, and the moral contrasts between the two sides.\nToday, the modern world is once more in the throes of painful transformation. It is essential to establish why and how the last great war was won. Why the Allies Won casts a brilliant light on the most important turning point of the modern age.\nAmazon.com Review\nHaving won an unprecedented series of victories and acquired huge new territories in 1942, Germany and Japan seemed poised to dominate most of the world. A year later both empires were reeling back in the face of Allied assaults. The rapid turnaround, King's College history professor Richard Overy writes, came about largely as a result of technological innovation and structural responsiveness. The Allies were able to convert their economies to a war footing with few institutional fetters, while the Axis powers imposed layers of bureaucracy that often competed internally. In fact, Overy writes, at one point during the war, the Luftwaffe had more than 425 different aircraft models in production, the result of different state agencies' and manufacturers' vying to push their models into the order of battle. The defeated Axis powers' conversion to their foes' economic model enabled them, according to Overy, to become technological leaders in the postwar years. His study is full of detail, and it makes for very good reading.

Why The Allies Won

Overy, Richard

Feynman's Lost Lecture

Goodstein, David L. & Judith R.

Missing Beauty-a True Story of Murder and Obsession

Carpenter, Teresa

Mystery, Thriller & Suspense

Mitch Gordon, lawyer and yachtsman, awakens 70 miles from Tahiti to find himself alone in his 40-foot ketch. Sometime in the last dark hours his wife Lindy has been swept overboard into the giant Pacific swells. For 36 hours he clings aloft in the tropical sun, tracing and retracing the vessel's course. Lindy, buoyed by a flimsy life-jacket, struggles to survive until he can find her.  In his fiction, Hank Searls has always drawn on personal experience. He is the author of THE BIG X, THE CROWDED SKY, HEROSHIP and LOST PRINCE. He lives with his wife aboard their ketch in the South Pacific.

Overboard: A Novel

Searls, Hank.

Contemporary

A collection of poems written by Rainer Maria Rilke. Trade Paperback, 160.

Sonnets To Orpheus

Biographies & Memoirs

RILKE, RAINER MARIA

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Spaniards In Their History, The

Menendez Pidal, Ramon. Translated with an Introduction by Walter Starkie

The Balkans in Our Time

Robert Lee Wolff

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