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  • USSR 1984
    David Grunwald
    The Soviet Union was an important part of the 20th century. Yet few Americans know or understand this period. Born in the blood of the First World War, the USSR survived the Nazi invasion and World War Two. The Cold War, a global conflict that tested the social, political and economic fiber of all nations, left a landscape of war and the continuing specter of nuclear Armaged...
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    26,36 €

  • The Principles of Swing and Balance and the New Political Realism
    David Grunwald
    'The Principles of Swing and Balance and the New Political Realism: A Quantum Lens and American Foreign Policy - A Critical New Perspective' offers a groundbreaking exploration of the intersections between quantum theory, strategic balance, and the evolving dynamics of American foreign policy. Challenging traditional paradigms, this thought-provoking work examines how the princ...
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    44,72 €

  • Three Months in Soviet Russia (1921)
    David Grunwald
    Arthur Holitscher’s book 'Three Months in Soviet Russia (1921)' written just over a century ago offers a rare glimpse into the formative years of the Soviet Union seen through the eyes of a journalist traveler who created a new form of travelogue called 'political-literary journalism'. The people, places and things are brought to life through the vignettes that sketch monument...
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    28,49 €

  • André Gide’s Return From the USSR
    André Gide / David Grunwald
    André Paul Guillaume Gide (22 November 1869 - 19 February 1951) was a French author and winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature (in 1947). His work 'Retour de l’ U.R.S.S.' (1936) is a simple, yet important testimony to life inside a totalitarian society and the ensuing disillusionment felt by those who believed in the socialist utopia. Gide’s informal style allows the reader...
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  • Blue Moon Binder Poems 1987-2021
    David Grunwald
    The Blue Moon Tavern, opened a few months after Prohibition was lifted in 1934, is the first and oldest tavern in the U-District. It also provided a haven for UW professors who were caught up in the McCarthyist purges, such as Joe Butterworth, who used the bar as his writing desk. Specializing in Old English, he never found work again. He eventually went on public assistance...
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    17,52 €

  • Notes From the Gallows Reportáž, psaná na oprátce
    David Grunwald / Julius Fučík
    Julius Fučik ('Fuchik') (1903 - 1943) wrote this book under the shadow of the Nazi hangman’s noose. The very form of the manuscript testifies to the invincible courage and resourcefulness of the author. It consists of penciled slips of paper smuggled one by one, with the aid of a sympathetic Czech guard, from the Gestapo prison at Pankrác, Prague. Fuchik, a man scornful of self...
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    14,49 €

  • A Prison Voice
    David Grunwald
    Hugues-Félicité Robert de Lamennais (or De La Mennais) (19 June 1782 - 27 February 1854) was a French Catholic priest, philosopher and political theorist. He was one of the most influential intellectuals of Restoration France. Lamennais is considered the forerunner of liberal Catholicism and social Catholicism.Lamennais was a prolific writer, yet many of his works were never pu...
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    18,79 €

  • The People and the Government
    Abbé Félicité Robert Lamennais / David Grunwald
    Abbé Félicité Robert de Lamennais (1782-1854) was one of the most interesting figures in 19th century France. Lamennais was a French Catholic priest, philosopher and political theorist. He was one of the most influential intellectuals of Restoration France. Lamennais is considered the forerunner of liberal Catholicism and social Catholicism. His struggle against tyranny and ...
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    17,58 €

  • The Preacher of Death
    David Grunwald
    Considered one of the brightest thinkers in fin-de-siècle Europe, Landauer believed in a form of communitarian anarchism of the head and heart, of thought and action. His desire to 'turn your dreams of beauty into a desire for realization' were important ideas before World War One. The 1893 novel 'Der Todesprediger' (Preacher of Death) is an introduction to Landauer’s ideas. ...
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    17,46 €

  • The Pragmatic Constitution The Making of the American Government
    David Grunwald
    Americans had been designing state and local governments since 1776. The American experience included a long period of British colonial domination and a Revolutionary War. It had taken some time for the Continental Congress to propose and implement the Articles of Confederation (1781). John Jay, Henry Know and Rufus King provided ideas about a new form of government. Congre...
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    22,99 €

  • Skepticism and Mysticism On Mauthner’s Critique of Language by Gustav Landauer 1903
    David Grunwald
    Gustav Landauer (7 April 1870 - 2 May 1919) was one of the leading theorists on anarchism in Germany at the end of the 19th and the beginning of the 20th century. He was an advocate of social anarchism and an avowed pacifist. In 1919, during the German Revolution, he was briefly Commissioner of Enlightenment and Public Instruction of the short-lived Bavarian Soviet Republic. He...
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    23,13 €

  • Why Communism Failed
    David Grunwald
    'The Lessons of Marxism in Light of the Russian Revolution by Boris Brutzkus' examines the Russian economic system after the Russian Revolution. The book includes a biography of Boris Brutzkus and generous footnotes to aid the reader unfamiliar with the theoretical and historical background of this event. A complete copy of 'The Communist Manifesto 1848' is included. This is...
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    24,51 €

  • Richard Avenarius
    David Grunwald
    Richard Avenarius (born November 19, 1843, Paris-died August 18, 1896, Zürich) was a German-Swiss philospher who formulated the radical positivist doctrine of ''empirical criticism'' or empirio-criticism. The major task of philosophy is to develop a 'natural concept of the world' based on pure experience. Traditional metaphysicians believed in two categories of experience, i...
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    22,12 €

  • Ernst Toller’s Poems of the Prisoners 1918-1921
    David Grunwald
    Ernst Toller’s Poems 1918-1921 contain his complete ''Poems of the Prisoners'' and his first play ''Die Wandlung'' (Transformation). Ernst Toller was born in Samotschin, Province of Posen, Prussia in 1893 into a Jewish family. At the outbreak of World War I, he volunteered for military duty, spent thirteen months on the Western Front, and suffered a complete physical and psych...
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    22,47 €

  • Coriolanus
    David Grunwald
    Coriolanus was one of Shakespeare’s last tragic plays along with Romeo and Juliet. It was adapted for stage by Bertolt Brecht and made into a movie in 2011 starring Ralph Feinnes. In this adaptation, Coriolanus is the name given to a general after his more than adequate military successes against various uprisings challenging the government of Mundus Novus. A 40 Years’ war i...
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    17,14 €

  • Richard Avenarius
    David Grunwald
    Als Begründer des Empiriokritizismus erlangte Richard Avenarius (1843-1896) Weltruhm und übte erheblichen Einfluß auf Philosophen wie Edmund Husserl und Ernst Mach aus. Sein Hauptwerk ist die 'Kritik der reinen Erfahrung', in der Avenarius vor allem der kantischen Erkenntnistheorie eine Absage erteilt. In seinem System tritt an die Stelle eines reinen Bewußtseins das Bewußtse...
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    40,93 €

  • Schweigen in den verschneiten Feldern
    David Grunwald
    'Schweigen in den verschneiten Feldern' (1962) war Robert Blys erster Gedichtband. Der Autor feiert die Unschuld der Natur und das Leben in Amerika. Diese besondere Andacht feiert die ursprüngliche Stimme der amerikanischen Poesie von Robert Bly. ...
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    17,10 €

  • Paper Mache 1917 (paperback)
    David Grunwald
    Paper Mache 1917 is the author’s first novella and celebrates the centenary of the Russian Revolution. The epic work explores timeless themes of war, love and hate, tragedy and redemption and offers a fresh historical look at the revolutionary forces unleashed before and after the Russian Revolution in 1917. In some cases, the story uses images made popular by Imaginism, a po...
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    16,29 €

  • Lantern On the Borders of Uncreated Spaces
    David Grunwald
    Lantern on the Borders of Uncreated Spaces is a book of contemporary American poems and writings that inspire and widen the reader experience. The work seeks to travel to borders of contemporary thought and inspire a more compassionate tomorrow through poems, haikus and other writings. Discover something new! ...
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    24,62 €

  • Marina Tsvetaeva’s Poems to Bohemia
    David Grunwald
    Marina Tsvetaeva’s translated 'Poems to Bohemia', with other original translations from Czech poet Josef Hora. ...
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    24,80 €

  • The Immeasurable House of Being
    David Grunwald
    The Immeasurable House of Being is a collection of koans, haikus and an assortment of poems dedicated to the art of poetry and those sentient beings that struggle to live in our world. ...
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    13,84 €