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    Torture in the 21st Century von Alexander Bahar
    Alexander Bahar
    Torture in the 21st Century
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    The Career Bible von Jochen Mai
    Jochen Mai
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    Varus' Defeat von Hans Dieter Stöver
    Hans Dieter Stöver
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Alexander Bahar
Torture in the 21st Century
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Is the dignity of man no longer inviolable?

"The gloves came off" - this is how the Director of the CIA's Counterterrorism Center described what happened in the wake of 9/11....

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Jochen Mai
The Career Bible
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What are the elements of success? Only 10% percent, at most, is down to effort, the major part relies on psychology, sociology, strategy, diplomacy, imagination and publicity....

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Hans Dieter Stöver
Varus' Defeat
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That wasn't what the Romans expected - at that time, 9 AD.

"Varus, Varus, give me back my legions", Emperor August is supposed to have lamented,...

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Torture in the 21st Century von Alexander Bahar
Alexander Bahar
Torture in the 21st Century
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Is the dignity of man no longer inviolable?

"The gloves came off" - this is how the Director of the CIA's Counterterrorism Center described what happened in the wake of 9/11....

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Joachim Bumke
Courtly Culture
There were two main reasons for the founding and spread of an independent German court culture in the 12th and 13th centuries: the ascent of the princes (combined with the...
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Less Than Human von Anatol Chari
Anatol Chari
Timothy Braatz
Less Than Human
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From ghetto to death camp - a memoir of privilege and luck

Anatol Chari was a member of the Jewish Special Police Force and his memoirs are one of the few...

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Hype! von Piroschka Dossi
Piroschka Dossi
Hype!
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Art as a million dollar project

In our capitalist society, works of art represent the ultimate status symbol. The art market is booming, prices are rocketing....

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And Suddenly We Were Criminals von Dorothea Ebert
Dorothea Ebert
Michael Proksch
And Suddenly We Were Criminals
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In the summer of 1983, a group of people attempted to flee from East Germany: siblings Michael and Dorothea, both musicians from Dresden, as well as Dorothea's husband...

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We Are Young and We Need the Money von Yvonne Feller
Yvonne Feller
Florian Flechsig
We Are Young and We Need the Money
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Against the backdrop of the precarious work situation and life circumstances of many young people today, the authors devised the following experiment: a contest to see which ...

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Norbert Frei
The Hitler State
Deutsche Geschichte der neuesten Zeit

The definitive work about the inner workings of the rise of the Third Reich, in an updated and extended edition. An overall history of German society during National Socialism....

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1968 von Norbert Frei
Norbert Frei
1968
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The year 1968 stands for an entire decade of rebellion. All around the globe young people took to the streets in their hundreds of thousands. Norbert Frei traces the roots of...

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Skeletons in the Closet von Markus Frenzel
Markus Frenzel
Skeletons in the Closet
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In 2006, a Congolese Hutu rebel chief was arrested in Germany. He had been able to direct a war of extermination in his own country from the comfort of his Mannheim living room....

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Bertha Krupp and Her Children von Diana Maria Friz
Diana Maria Friz
Bertha Krupp and Her Children
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Bertha Krupp (1887-1957) spent her entire life in the public eye. Following her father's untimely and scandal-ridden death, she inherited the Krupp industrial empire at...

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Margarethe Krupp: The Life of My Great-Grandmother von Diana Maria Friz
Diana Maria Friz
Margarethe Krupp: The Life of My Great-Grandmother
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It is 1902, and Friedrich Alfred Krupp - head of the global industrial giant of the same name - dies suddenly at the height of a scandal concerning his alleged homosexuality....

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Hermann Graml
The Reichskristallnacht
Deutsche Geschichte der neuesten Zeit
A series in 30 volumes, edited by Martin Broszat, Wolfgang Benz and Hermann Graml, in collaboration with the Munich Institute of Contemporary History. Modern history...
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Heiko Haumann
A History of the Eastern Jews
Joseph Roth once wrote: "Nowhere are the Eastern Jews at home, but they have graves in every graveyard". They are not just the Jews of Eastern Europe, although it is there that...
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The Gulf States von Rainer Hermann
Rainer Hermann
The Gulf States
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Hermann's analysis examines the recent history of New Arabia, which he defines as the Arab states along the Persian Gulf as opposed to the conflict-ridden...

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What Would Caesar Have Done? von Martin Jehne
Martin Jehne
What Would Caesar Have Done?
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The rise of a brilliant politician caught between resistance to reform and activism   Julius Caesar crossed the Rubicon, and this led to the end of the...

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Hans Küng
Klaus M. Leisinger
Manifesto Global Economic Ethic

How can we succeed in structuring the economic globalization of the future world on the basis of transculturally accepted legal and ethical rules? This Manifesto for a Global...

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The Career Bible von Jochen Mai
Jochen Mai
The Career Bible
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What are the elements of success? Only 10% percent, at most, is down to effort, the major part relies on psychology, sociology, strategy, diplomacy, imagination and publicity....

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The Office Bible von Jochen Mai
Jochen Mai
The Office Bible
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One day. Loads of problems. All the answers! 

Offices are more than just common human habitats - they are also conflict zones that exert a massive...

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Horst Möller
Weimar
The story of the first German democracy (1918 - 1933) Proclaimed in 1918 after the end of the First World War, the first German republic was ill fated from the outset....
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Dubai Speed von Michael Schindhelm
Michael Schindhelm
Dubai Speed
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Under the slogan "bigger, higher, more modern, more glamorous", the world's 21 st-century capital was to be erected in the middle of the desert....

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Reinhard Schlüter
Seven - a magic number

Can any of us really claim to be free of superstitious beliefs, for example the 'seven years' bad luck' that are supposed to follow when you break a mirror?...

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The Ghetto Swinger von Coco Schumann
Coco Schumann
The Ghetto Swinger
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Coco Schumann was born in Berlin in 1924, and discovered jazz and swing music at the age of thirteen. Thanks to his Aryan looks and his cheeky Berlin tongue, Schumann, half...
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The Tea Party: White Rage von Eva C. Schweitzer
Eva C. Schweitzer
The Tea Party: White Rage
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A new right-wing group is thriving in the USA: the Tea Party - a white, ultraconservative, nationalist movement. While many Tea Party members are simply dyed-in-the-wool...

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A Poverty Of Government von Volker Seitz
Volker Seitz
A Poverty Of Government
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The compassion business

Africa is not simply a continent of war, disease and catastrophe - it is also a continent rich in both resources and culture. We...

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The Culture of Change von Konrad Stadler
Konrad Stadler
The Culture of Change
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A spiritual approach to management culture

Leadership is an essential part of corporate culture, and as such should ideally be aligned with the western value...

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Varus' Defeat von Hans Dieter Stöver
Hans Dieter Stöver
Varus' Defeat
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That wasn't what the Romans expected - at that time, 9 AD.

"Varus, Varus, give me back my legions", Emperor August is supposed to have lamented,...

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Where Would We Be Without Debts? von Thomas Strobl
Thomas Strobl
Where Would We Be Without Debts?
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Debts oil the gears of market economy  

The spiralling national debt in countries all over the world has not only generated a spirit of doom and gloom but...

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Homicide Squad von Richard Thiess
Richard Thiess
Homicide Squad
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A dead baby in the rubbish bin and dismembered body parts in plastic bags: when your daily business consists of dealing with murder and manslaughter, suffering and fear,...

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Richard Thiess
Police! Stop Right There!

Featuring more than 40 real-life cases  

Following his bestselling book Homicide Squad, Detective Chief Superintendent Richard Thiess gives us an intimate...

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Jürgen Weber
A Short History of Germany Since 1945
A compact, vivid and informative introduction to German history from 1945 to the present. In twelve clearly structured chapters, Jürgen Weber describes the history of...
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Edda Ziegler
Banned - Ostracised - Banished

No sooner had German-speaking women writers begun to make their mark on the literary scene at the start of the 20th century than their way was already being barred by the...

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