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  • Profits and Persecution

    German Big Business in the Nazi Economy and the Holocaust

    by Peter Hayes ...
    What role did German big business play in the persecution of European Jews during the Holocaust? What were its motivations? And how did it respond to changing social and economic circumstances after the war? Profits and Persecution examines how the leaders of Germany's largest industrial and financial enterprises played a key part in the catastrophes and crimes of their nation in the first half of ... Read more

    $24.99 USD

  • Crime Before Our Time

    Crime Fiction and Mystery Inspired by History

    Murder, theft, betrayal, and deception are as old as civilization itself.In Crime Before Our Time, journey across thousands of years and into multiple cultures to discover the mysteries of the past. From the courts and temples of Ancient Egypt and Rome to medieval China and Japan, through Elizabethan England to North America during colonial times until the 1800s, these captivating stories show how ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • The Politics of American Foreign Policy

    How Ideology Divides Liberals and Conservatives over Foreign Affairs

    This "eye-opening analysis" explains how and why America's culture wars and partisan divide have led to dysfunctional US policy abroad ( The Atlantic).In this provocative book, Peter Gries challenges the view that partisan elites on Capitol Hill are out of touch with a moderate American public. Dissecting a new national survey, Gries shows how ideology powerfully divides Main Street over both ... Read more

    $20.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Why?

    Explaining the Holocaust

    by Peter Hayes ...
    **Featured in the PBS documentary, "The US and the Holocaust" by Ken Burns, Lynn Novick and Sarah Botstein"Superbly written and researched, synthesizing the classics while digging deep into a vast repository of primary sources." —Josef Joffe, Wall Street Journal**Why? explores one of the most tragic events in human history by addressing eight of the most commonly asked questions about the ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Inventing ELIZA

    How the First Chatbot Shaped the Future of AI

    Series series Software Studies
    How the original ELIZA chatbot transformed ideas about AI and society’s response to them.As we reach the 60th anniversary of ELIZA’s public debut, Inventing ELIZA offers the first comprehensive critical analysis of Joseph Weizenbaum’s groundbreaking chatbot system through the lens of critical code studies. Drawing on extensive archival research at MIT, Stanford, and UCLA, this book presents the ... Read more

    $25.99 USD

  • Assessment in Physical Education

    A Sociocultural Perspective

    Series series Routledge Studies in Physical Education and Youth Sport
    Assessment has widely been acknowledged as a central element of institutional education, shaping curriculum and pedagogy in powerful ways and representing a critical reference point in political, professional and public debates about educational achievement and policy directions. Within physical education there remains significant debate regarding the subject knowledge, skills and understandings ... Read more

    $91.99 USD

  • Theory of Modern Drama

    A Critical Edition

    by Peter Szondi ...
    Translated by Michael Hays ...
    Theory of the Modern Drama is a brilliant analysis of the emergence and development of modern drama from the Renaissance to the present day. Szondi shows how the rise of modern drama was linked to broader social processes and expressed some of the beliefs characteristic of early modern Europe. This was manifested in the convention that form was ahistorical and it simply required the appropriate ... Read more

    $16.00 USD

  • Reading Hemingway’s The Old Man and the Sea

    Glossary and Commentary

    Series series Reading Hemingway
    The Old Man and the Sea is a deceptively simple work. An old man goes fishing. He catches a giant marlin after much struggle. Sharks attack and destroy the fish. The old man is left with the bare bones of the fish—a Monday morning “fish story.” But much lies beneath the surface. The action is condensed and presented in carefully crafted images, in words and details selected because of their ... Read more

    $28.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Audiobook

    Why?

    Explaining the Holocaust

    by Peter Hayes ...
    Narrated by Don Hagen ...

    Unabridged

    13 hours 21 min

    Featured in the PBS documentary The US and the Holocaust by Ken Burns, Lynn Novick, and Sarah BotsteinA bold new exploration that answers the most commonly asked questions about the Holocaust.Despite the outpouring of books, movies, museums, memorials, and courses devoted to the Holocaust, a coherent explanation of why such ghastly carnage erupted from the heart of civilized Europe in the ... Read more

    Was $39.99 USD Now $25.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Wharton, Hemingway, and the Advent of Modernism

    Wharton, Hemingway, and the Advent of Modernism is the first book to examine the connections linking two major American writers of the twentieth century, Edith Wharton and Ernest Hemingway. In twelve critical essays, accompanied by a foreword from Wharton scholar Laura Rattray and a critical introduction by volume editor Lisa Tyler, contributors reveal the writers’ overlapping contexts, interests, ... Read more

    Was $44.99 USD Now $18.99 USD

  • Bioinformational Philosophy and Postdigital Knowledge Ecologies

    Series series Education (R0)
    The book presents a cross-disciplinary overview of critical issues at the intersections of biology, information, and society. Based on theories of bioinformationalism, viral modernity, the postdigital condition, and others, this book explores two inter-related questions: Which new knowledge ecologies are emerging? Which philosophies and research approaches do they require?The book argues that the ... Read more

    $143.99 USD

  • Behemoth

    The Structure and Practice of National Socialism, 1933-1944

    Franz Neumann's classic account of the governmental workings of Nazi Germany, first published in 1942, is reprinted in a new paperback edition with an introduction by the distinguished historian Peter Hayes. Neumann was one of the only early Frankfurt School thinkers to examine seriously the problem of political institutions. After the rise of the Nazis to power, his emphasis shifted to an ... Read more

    $21.99 USD