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  • Have Yourself a Merry Legal Christmas
    David Krell
    Christmas has long been portrayed as a time of joy, reflection and resolution, balancing sentiment with spectacle. Capitalizing on the holiday season, Hollywood has produced a stream of films and television episodes that evoke emotion and, most often, end happily. This book examines the legal components of these narratives, exploring the laws, regulations, cases and legal pri...
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    57,48 €

  • Bo Belinsky
    David Krell
    Bo Belinsky’s story proves the adage that all that glitters is not gold. One of baseball’s most notorious figures, Belinsky began in the minor leagues in the mid-1950s, gained a spotlight with a no-hitter for the Angels during his rookie season, and endured severe ups and downs. Along the way, he dated the most famous actresses in America, including Mamie Van Doren, Connie S...
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    42,70 €

  • This Dagger, My Heart
    David Farrell Krell
    Historical fiction centered around the life and tragic death of the German Romantic poet and philosopher Karoline von Günderrode.In 1806, when she was only twenty-six, Karoline von Günderrode plunged a dagger through her heart. She was a gifted poet and philosopher, a member of the circle of Romantic writers such as Bettine Brentano, Clemens Brentano, and Achim von Arnim. Women...
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    17,66 €

  • Struck by Apollo
    David Farrell Krell
    Retraces Hölderlin’s journeys to Bordeaux and back in 1801-02, explaining why they are turning points in the great poet’s life.2024 CHOICE Outstanding Academic TitleIn the winter of 1801-02, Friedrich Hölderlin traveled more than one thousand kilometers from his home near Stuttgart to Bordeaux, partly on foot, partly by post coach. It took him two months. Then, after four month...
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    31,11 €

  • A Black Forest Walden
    David Farrell Krell
    Compares life today in the German Black Forest with Thoreau’s experiences at Walden Pond.Finalist for the 2022 Foreword INDIES Book of the Year Award in the Essay Category A Black Forest Walden is a work of philosophical reflection, nature description, and sly humor. In brief chapters, or aphorisms, the American philosopher David Farrell Krell recounts his experiences in a cabi...
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    29,05 €

  • The New York Mets in Popular Culture
    David Krell
    Bringing fresh perspectives to the team that has brought joy, triumph and even a miracle to New York City, this collection of new essays examines portrayals of the Mets in film, television, advertising and other media. Contributors cover little-known aspects of Mets history that even die-hard fans may not know. Topics include the popularity of Rheingold’s advertising in the ...
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    42,73 €

  • The Cudgel and the Caress
    David Farrell Krell
    Offers philosophical and psychological reflections on cruelty and tenderness.The Cudgel and the Caress explores the enduring significance of tenderness and cruelty in a range of works across philosophy, psychoanalysis, and literature. Divided into two parts, the book initially focuses on tenderness, with David Farrell Krell delivering original readings of Homer’s Iliad, Sophocl...
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    49,57 €

  • The New York Yankees in Popular Culture
    David Krell
    How did Reggie Jackson go from superstar to icon? Why did Joe DiMaggio’s nickname change from 'Deadpan Joe' to 'Joltin’ Joe'? How did Seinfeld affect public perception of George Steinbrenner? The New York Yankees’ dominance on the baseball diamond has been lauded, analyzed and chronicled. Yet the team’s broader impact on popular culture has been largely overlooked--until n...
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    58,59 €

  • The Sea
    David Farrell Krell
    Humankind has a profound and complex relationship with the sea, a relationship that is extensively reflected in biology, psychology, religion, literature and poetry. The sea cradles and soothes us, we visit it often for solace and inspiration, it is familiar, being the place where life ultimately began. Yet the sea is also dark and mysterious and often spells catastrophe and de...
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    44,04 €

  • 'Our Bums'
    David Krell
    Baseball fans may know the story of the Brooklyn Dodgers, but they don’t know the whole story. With a foreword by Branch Barrett Rickey (grandson of Branch Rickey), this book fills the void in Dodgers scholarship, exploring their impact on popular culture and revealing lesser-known details of the team’s history. Personal stories are included from the fans who embraced Jack...
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    42,80 €

  • The Death of Empedocles
    Friedrich Hölderlin / David Farrell Krell
    The definitive scholarly edition and new translation of all three versions of Hölderlin’s poem, The Death of Empedocles, and his related theoretical essays.On the eve of his final odes and hymns, Friedrich Hölderlin composed three versions of a dramatic poem on the suicide of the early Greek thinker, Empedocles of Acragas. This book offers the first complete translation of the ...
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    49,60 €