Thomas Berger: 41 books

The Pulitzer Prize–nominated author of Little Big Man proves that sometimes war doesn’t change a person, but the world he lives in.   Carlo Reinhart returns home from his service in Germany expecting the Ohio he left not too long ago. What he finds instead is new technology, old attitudes, and...

Little Big Man author Thomas Berger takes the murder mystery and runs with it in this trip around a quiet suburb with a dark secret. “A cutting, ironic wit and a precision of detail so deadly it hurts when you laugh.” —Ms. Mary Jane Jones doesn't like to meddle. She's content to stay out of the...

Nominated for a Pulitzer Prize, The Feud chronicles a hilariously destructive rivalry between families from neighboring towns in 1930s America. "I marked my copy of THE FEUD with a star wherever its blend of irony, parody and slapstick made me laugh out loud; some pages look like a map of the Milky Way."...

Is Northeast Asia primed for peace or ripe for great-power rivalry? In this turbulent region, all the world-order challenges of arms control and disarmament, global North-South tensions, human rights and humanitarian intervention, environmental protection and eco-development, and democratization and...

The time is the 1930s. Buddy Sandifer, dressed in his natty white flannels, baby-blue shirt, striped tie, tan-and-white shoes, and coconut-straw hat with polka-dot band, is falling into one of his moods. Owner of a used-car lot and father of a fifteen-year-old son with a penchant for sex manuals,...

Suburban regular guy Earl Keese confronts the yawning pit of chaos in the persons of Harry and Ramona, a younger couple who have just moved into the only other house on their dead-end street. Literally overnight, Earl's painstakingly controlled world is turned upside down. Soon he is engaged in guerilla...

The author of the Pulitzer Prize–finalist The Feud blurs reality in this breakneck thriller following one man’s encounter with pure evil in high tops.   John Felton is a creature of habit. His job in real estate comes with no surprises; it’s respectable work he can be proud of. Routine has...

The Pulitzer Prize–nominated author of Little Big Man returns with perhaps one of his most imaginative alternate realities yet: a matriarchal society.   Women reign supreme in the not-so-distant future, where Georgie Cornell has no choice but to wear the high heel shoe on the other foot. Swept...

A novel of alternate realities from the Pulitzer Prize–nominated author: “Those willing to spend a few hours in his Twilight Zone will come away the richer” (Library Journal).   With a loving wife and son, a successful job as chief copy-editor, and a schedule all his own, Walter Hunsicker is...

Studienarbeit aus dem Jahr 2008 im Fachbereich Pädagogik - Geschichte der Päd., Note: 1,0, Universität Hamburg, 25 Quellen im Literaturverzeichnis, Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: Die vorliegende Arbeit untersucht nicht primär den Werteverfall und dessen Auswirkungen, sondern vielmehr, ob die Erziehungswissenschaft...

Besser als jedes Lehrbuch es vermöchte, spiegelt dieses Buch den aktuellen Diskurs in der wissenschaftlichen Psychotherapie aus einer entspannten Haltung heraus wider. Die Herausgeber versammeln darin die Texte internationaler Experten aus Europa und den USA. Es geht in diesem Band um Beziehungen,...

Studienarbeit aus dem Jahr 2009 im Fachbereich Pädagogik - Sonstiges, Note: 2, Helmut-Schmidt-Universität - Universität der Bundeswehr Hamburg (Fakultät für Geistes- und Sozialwissenschaften), Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: Im Fokus stehen vor allem die Bedeutung und die Wirkung von 'peer groups'...

Studienarbeit aus dem Jahr 2009 im Fachbereich Pädagogik - Berufserziehung, Berufsbildung, Weiterbildung, Note: 1,0, Universität Hamburg, Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: ' [...] Da es sehr unbefriedigend war, Fragen zum Beruf in verschiedensten Wissens- und Forschungsgebieten nur randständig und unkoordiniert...

Studienarbeit aus dem Jahr 2009 im Fachbereich Pädagogik - Berufserziehung, Berufsbildung, Weiterbildung, Note: 1,3, Universität Hamburg, Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: Die vorliegende Arbeit beschäftigt sich jedoch nicht primär mit dem Aufbau und dem Ablauf dieser Bildungsmaßnahme, sondern vielmehr...