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1	Weimar Culture: The Outsider as Insider more books like this by Professor Peter Gay add to wishlist A study of German culture between the two wars, this book brilliantly traces the rise of the artistic, literary, and musical culture that bloomed ever so briefly in the 1920s amid the chaos of Germany's tenuous post-World War I democracy, and crashed violently in the wake of Hitler's rise to power. Includes a new Introduction. 16 illustrations. see all copies from $2.99! new only from $9.21! \| first editions
2	Kinesiology: Scientific Basis of Human Motion more books like this by Nancy Hamilton add to wishlist This introductory text provides undergraduate students with the basics of anatomy, physiology, and the applications of kinesiology. It uses a qualitative approach with an easy-to-follow writing style. Theory is balanced with many sport and real-world applications to promote the integrated nature of kinesiology, including the anatomical and ... see all copies from $2.71! new only from $64.06! \| first editions \| SVS
3	Weimar Germany: Promise & Tragedy more books like this by Eric D Weitz add to wishlist Weimar Germany still fascinates us, and now this complex and remarkably creative period and place has the history it deserves. Eric Weitz's "Weimar Germany" reveals the Weimar era as a time of strikingly progressive achievements - and even greater promise. With a rich thematic narrative and detailed portraits of some of Weimar's greatest figures, ... see all copies from $10.66! new only from $14.95! \| first editions \| SVS
4	Weimar and the rise of Hitler more books like this by Anthony James Nicholls add to wishlist This volume begins with Germany's defeat in 1918 and the revolutionary disturbances which followed the collapse of Wilhelm II's Empire. It describes the strengths and weaknesses of the new regime, and the stresses created by the economic difficulties of the 1920s. Adolf Hitler's career is traced from its early beginnings in Munich, and the nature ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $26.00! \| first editions \| SVS
5	Bauhaus: Weimar, Dessau, Berlin, Chicago more books like this by Hans Wingler add to wishlist A standard work and the most comprehensive collection of documents and pictoral material ever published on this famous school of design. see all copies from $18.16! new only from $52.00! \| first editions \| SVS
6	The Weimar Republic Sourcebook more books like this by Anton Kaes (Editor), Professor Martin Jay (Editor), Edward Dimendberg (Editor) add to wishlist A laboratory for competing visions of modernity, the Weimar Republic (1918-1933) continues to haunt the imagination of the twentieth century. Its political and cultural lessons retain uncanny relevance for all who seek to understand the tensions and possibilities of our age. "The Weimar Republic Sourcebook" represents the most comprehensive ... see all copies from $11.37! new only from $37.76! \| SVS
7	Lustmord: Sexual Murder in Weimar Germany more books like this by Maria M Tatar add to wishlist In a book that confronts our society's obsession with sexual violence, Maria Tatar seeks the meaning behind one of the most disturbing images of twentieth-century Western culture: the violated female corpse. This image is so prevalent in painting, literature, film, and, most recently, in mass media, that we rarely question what is at stake in its ... see all copies from $11.27! new only from $33.70! \| first editions \| SVS
8	Hitler and the Collapse of Weimar Germany more books like this by Martin Broszat, Joan Bestard-Camps, Volker R Berghahn (Translator) add to wishlist Translated from the German and with a Foreword by Volker R. Berghahn The only comprehensive and up-to-date analysis of the most fateful period in modern German history between 1929-1933. see all copies from $3.17! new only from $12.98! \| first editions \| SVS
9	Voluptuous Panic: The Erotic World of Weimar Berlin more books like this by Mr. Mel Gordon add to wishlist ""Voluptuous Panic" is simultaneously appalling and thrilling, repellent and seductive, grotesque and gorgeous-not a typical coffee table book. It would go better with absinthe drunk from a human skull."-Gary Meyer, "Clean Sheets" When "Voluptuous Panic: The Erotic World of Weimar Berlin" first appeared in the fall of 2000, it inspired wide ... see all copies from $22.34! new only from $22.34! \| first editions \| SVS
10	The Weimar Republic more books like this by J. W. Hiden add to wishlist It is often assumed that the Weimar Republic was bound to fail due to the harsh terms of the Versailles Settlement. Professor Hiden dispels this simplistic view and shows that it was a complex set of factors which finally brought Hitler to power. This clear and balanced study is now fully revised - for the first time since its publication in 1974 ... see all copies from $2.18! new only from $26.18!
11 view cover	Lotte in Weimar more books like this by Mann add to wishlist Forty years after their youthful association, Lotte Kestner, real-life heroine of Goethe's famous novel "The Sorrows of Werther", makes a pilgrimage to Weimer to see Goethe. Upon her arrival, Lotte, to her surprise, is greeted as a celebrity and taken up into Goethe's set. see all copies from $2.43! new only from $34.35! \| first editions
12 view cover	The Weimar Republic more books like this by Detlev J K Peukert add to wishlist The nature of Weimar's terminal crisis - how a politically liberal and culturally progressive society could succomb to fascism - remains one of the central historical questions of our century. In this major work, Detlev J.K. Peukert offers a stimulating interpretation that not only places Weimar in the history of twentieth-century Germany but also ... see all copies from $6.50! new only from $10.48! \| SVS
13 view cover	Gustav Stresemann: Weimar's Greatest Statesman more books like this by Jonathan Wright add to wishlist Gustav Stresemann was the exceptional political figure of his time. His early death in 1929 has long been viewed as the beginning of the end for the Weimar Republic and the opening through which Hitler was able to come to power. His career was marked by many contradictions but also a pervading loyalty to the values of liberalism and nationalism. ... see all copies from $38.50! new only from $65.65! \| first editions \| SVS
14 view cover	The Seven Addictions and Five Professions of Anita Berber: Weimar Berlin's Priestess of Decadence more books like this by Mr. Mel Gordon add to wishlist A contemporary biography of a notorious actress, dancer, and playwright who scandalized sex-obsessed Berlin during the 1920s chronicles the life of Anita Berber, who often haunted hotel lobbies, nightclubs and casinos, radiantly naked except for an elegant sable wrap, a pet monkey hanging from her neck, and a silver brooch packed with cocaine. see all copies from $9.17! new only from $13.65! \| first editions \| SVS
15	When Biology Became Destiny: Women in Weimar and Nazi Germany more books like this by Renate Bridenthal, Atina Grossman, Marion Kaplan add to wishlist see all copies from $4.49! new only from $57.12!
16 view cover	Weimar on the Pacific: German Exile Culture in Los Angeles and the Crisis of Modernism more books like this by Ehrhard Bahr add to wishlist In the 1930s and 40s, Los Angeles became an unlikely cultural sanctuary for a distinguished group of German artists and intellectuals - including Thomas Mann, Theodore W. Adorno, Bertolt Brecht, Fritz Lang, and Arnold Schoenberg - who had fled Nazi Germany. During their years in exile, they would produce a substantial body of major works to ... see all copies from $18.70! new only from $24.95! \| SVS
17	A History of the Weimar Republic. more books like this by Erich Eyck add to wishlist see all copies from $10.00! first editions
18 view cover	Back Talk: Teaching Lost Selves to Speak more books like this by Joan Weimer add to wishlist Joan Weimer had spent three years researching the life of 19th century novelist Constance Fenimore Woolson for a critical biography when a devastating back injury left her virtually immobile. Pain reshaped her research as she discovered more about Woolson's writing, family, and grief. The imaginative relationship she developed with Woolson - ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
19 view cover	Franz Liszt: The Weimar Years, 1848-1861 more books like this by Alan Walker add to wishlist see all copies from $18.98! new only from $23.46! \| SVS
20 view cover	Weimar Institute's newstart lifestyle cookbook : more than 260 heart-healthy recipes featuring whole plant foods more books like this by Sally J. Christenson, Frances De Vries, Weimar Institute add to wishlist * Proving that healthy food does not have to be bland, these tasty vegetarian recipes have been medically tested to help people with heart disease, diabetes, arthritis, and other illnesses. * Attractive four-color presentation of recipes and nutrition information. * Helpful hints on menu planning and food combinations, in addition to an ... see all copies from $13.68! new only from $29.75!
21 view cover	Weimar Cinema and After: Germany's Historical Imaginary more books like this by Thomas Elsaesser, Elsaesser Thoma add to wishlist German cinema of the 1920s is still regarded as one of the 'golden ages' of world cinema. Films such as The Cabinet of Dr Caligari, Dr Mabuse the Gambler, Nosferatu, Metropolis, Pandora's Box and The Blue Angel have long been canonised as classics, but they are also among the key films defining an image of Germany as a nation uneasy with itself. ... see all copies from $32.00! new only from $34.12! \| first editions \| SVS
22 view cover	The Salaried Masses: Duty and Distraction in Weimar Germany more books like this by Siegfried Kracauer (Preface by), Quintin Hoare (Translator), Inka Mulder-Bach (Introduction by) add to wishlist First published in 1930, this work has as its subject of inquiry the new class of salaried employees who populated the cities of Weimar Germany. Spiritually homeless, divorced from all custom and tradition, these white-collar workers sought refuge in entertainment - or the "distraction industries", as Siegfried Kracauer (1889-1966) put it - but, ... see all copies from $7.43! new only from $18.60! \| SVS
23 view cover	Justice Imperiled: The Anti-Nazi Lawyer Max Hirschberg in Weimar Germany more books like this by Dr. Douglas G Morris add to wishlist The story of one of post-World War I Germany's greatest defenders of justice in the face of Hitler's rise to power. In a unique blend of biography and courtroom drama, Justice Imperiled captures the excitement of Hirschberg's actual cases and presents legal battles that are raging, in different circumstances, to this day. "Justice Imperiled" ... see all copies from $16.50! new only from $28.99! \| first editions \| SVS
24 view cover	Cut with the Kitchen Knife: The Weimar Photomontages of Hannah Hoch more books like this by Ms. Maud Lavin add to wishlist The women of Weimar Germany had an uneasy alliance with modernity: while they experienced cultural liberation after World War I, these "New Women" still faced restrictions in their earning power, political participation, and reproductive freedom. Images of women in newspapers, films, magazines, and fine art of the 1920s, reflected their ambiguous ... see all copies from $68.25! new only from $120.00! \| first editions
25 view cover	Weimar Republic more books like this by Eberhard Kolb add to wishlist In the first part of the book, Professor Kolb provides a clear historical narrative of the political, social, economic and cultural developments of the Weimar Republic, setting it within the international context of the inter-war period. In the second part he surveys and analyses scholarly research in the field which sheds light on the problems ... see all copies from $2.65! new only from $32.68! \| SVS

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