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    The Man Who Stalked Einstein

    How Nazi Scientist Philipp Lenard Changed the Course of History

    by Birgit Ertl-Wagner, Bernd C. Wagner, Bruce J. Hillman ...
    Narrated by Arthur Morey ...

    Unabridged

    7 hours 46 min

    By the end of World War I, Albert Einstein had become the face of the new science of theoretical physics and had made some powerful enemies. One of those enemies, Nobel Prize winner Philipp Lenard, spent a career trying to discredit him. Their story of conflict, pitting Germany’s most widely celebrated Jew against the Nazi scientist who was to become Hitler’s chief advisor on physics, had an ... Read more

    $16.95 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

    Also available as: eBook

    Also available as: eBook

  • Squire and Sword

    by Birgit Constant ...
    Series Book 0.5 - The Northumbria Trilogy
    All he needs is the sword of a true warrior – or so he thinks.England AD 1070. In the fenlands of East Anglia, the Saxon resistance against the Norman king smoulders.Loïc, a young squire, knows that every man has to stand their ground against the rebels, but he only attracts the scorn and spite of the other squires during fighting practice. He must prove himself in combat if he wants to teach the ... Read more

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  • The Mussel Feast

    by Birgit Vanderbeke ...
    Translated by Jamie Bulloch ...
    The modern German classic that has shaped an entire generation.A mother and her two teenage children sit at the dinner table. In the middle stands a large pot of cooked mussels. Why has the father not returned home? As the evening wears on, we glimpse the issues that are tearing this family apart.'I wrote this book in August 1989, just before the Fall of the Berlin Wall. I wanted to understand how ... Read more

    $9.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • For Lord and Liege

    A gripping historical adventure thriller set in Norman England

    by Birgit Constant ...
    Series Book 2 - The Northumbria Trilogy
    A desperate heir. A dark secret. A deadly game.England, 1086. Sixteen-year-old Roger is thrust into the role of heir after his brother’s death, yet his father refuses to see him as a worthy successor.Determined to prove himself, Roger seeks solace in Gwennaol, a taciturn girl that might know a dark secret about his father.But seeing her is against his father’s order, and the closer he draws to the ... Read more

    $6.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Dead Guest: An Amsterdam Mystery – A2 English Reader

    Amsterdam Crime Stories, #1

    by Birgit Awick ...
    Series Book 1 - Amsterdam Crime Stories
    The Dead Guest – An Amsterdam Mystery (A2 English Reader)A mysterious death in the heart of Amsterdam. A quiet hotel. And a detective who knows that something is not right.When a guest is found dead in a small hotel near the canals of Amsterdam, the case seems simple at first. But detective Jan van der Weert quickly realizes that the story is more complicated. The victim had secrets, and several ... Read more

    $4.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Philosophy of Friedrich Heinrich Jacobi

    On the Contradiction between System and Freedom

    by Birgit Sandkaulen ...
    Translated by Matt Erlin ...
    Series series Bloomsbury Studies in Modern German Philosophy
    The contemporaries of Friedrich Heinrich Jacobi (1743-1819) openly acknowledged his towering importance. Both Fichte and Hegel praised him in the same breath with Kant as having launched the philosophical revolution they sought to complete. Yet for more than a century, misrepresentations of Jacobi's thought have stood in the way of a proper appreciation of his insights. In her study of this long ... Read more

    $33.99 USD

  • Teenage pregnancies in the UK and their perception in the British print media

    by Birgit Wilpers ...
    One of the most controversial issues in the United Kingdom is the topic of teenage pregnancy. The United Kingdom's number of teenage mothers is the highest one in comparison to all other European states. This is an astonishing fact, the more so as European countries such as Spain, Italy or Poland with a traditionally more conservative background formerly based on Catholicism with its strict moral ... Read more

    $21.27 USD

  • Roosevelt’s attempt to alter the composition of the Supreme Court:

    Did this plan fatally injure the New Deal?

    by Birgit Wilpers ...
    Franklin D. Roosevelt’s attempt to change the composition of the American Supreme Court can be seen from different perspectives. Some historians depict the Supreme Court debacle as the beginning of the end of the New Deal, whereas “in later years, Roosevelt [himself], asserted that the court-packing fiasco was one in which he lost the battle but won the war […]” (Coker, p. 114). In this essay, I ... Read more

    $6.68 USD

  • The Trials of Oscar Wilde

    by Birgit Wilpers ...
    In spring 1895, the three trials of Oscar Wilde took place at the Central Criminal Court, the so-called "Old Bailey" . In the last two of them Wilde was accused of indecency with other males and the last trial ended with a sentence to two years of prison with hard labour for Wilde. The trials and the following imprisonment had a devastating effect on his personal and professional future life. In ... Read more

    $15.68 USD

  • 'Rio Bravo' - The antidote to 'High Noon'?

    by Birgit Wilpers ...
    „Rio Bravo was made because I didn’t like a picture called High Noon” (McBride 130). This is one of Howard Hawks’ comments on his movie Rio Bravo, which he directed and produced in 1959. In this essay, I will describe the main features of Rio Bravo, deliver a possible interpretation of the characters and finally point out some of the main differences and similarities between Rio Bravo and High ... Read more

    $6.71 USD

  • The aims of Irish government policy on Northern Ireland since the Anglo-Irish Agreement (1985)

    by Birgit Wilpers ...
    In this essay I am going to analyse the principle agreements of the Irish and the British government with regards to Northern Ireland and to outline the aims of the Irish government for their policy. The Irish policy underwent certain shifts of emphasis during the period from 1985 to the present day and I will examine these different approaches. ... Read more

    $15.60 USD

  • Topline Syndrome

    Why a problem with a horses back is just a symptom

    by Birgit Volesky ...
    The overbuilt horse, a severe ewe neck, pelvic obliquity, injuries to the suspensory ligament, kissing spines and many other issues may be present when a horse is suffering from a weak back. These symptoms are avoidable in most cases if they are dealt with early enough. In this book, Birgit Volesky sums up her experience from over 10 years of practice in osteotherpy and with horses. These have led ... Read more

    $20.99 USD