Hermann: 877 books

In this book my year as an exchange student in the USA in the late 80’s is perfectly illustrated. The following series of stories is meant to serve as a refresher of those precious and very best moments which I was lucky to enjoy during that time. There is no doubt that this unique opportunity is...

The German Air Force versus Russia, 1941, written by Generalleutnant Hermann Plocher, and revised and edited by Mr. Harry Fletcher, is one of a series of historical studies written for the United States Air Force Historical Division by men who had been key officers in the German Air Force during World...

Hermann Kurzke und Christiane Schäfer zeigen an den Entstehungs-, Fassungs- und Wirkungsgeschichten von zwölf großen Liedern die Wandlungen des Mythos Maria vom Mittelalter bis zur Gegenwart. Singen ist mythosnäher als Sprechen. Die Epen der Völker wurden in einem festlichen Singsang vorgetragen....

Mozarts Opern Idomeneo, Le nozze di Figaro, Don Giovanni und Così fan tutte gehören ebenso wie das Singspiel Die Zauberflöte – um nur einige wenige seiner Bühnenwerke zu nennen – zum festen Repertoire der Opernhäuser in aller Welt. Ja, nicht wenige der Melodien, die darin erklingen, sind...

Già nell’Ottocento Kierkegaard e Nietzsche si sono interrogati sulla misteriosa forza che trabocca dal teatro musicale di Mozart, avvolgendo lo spettatore-ascoltatore entro una sorta di cerchio magico. Costante, in tutte le spiegazioni proposte, il riferimento alla carica vitale e umana di questa...

The Testimony of a Refugee from East Tennessee is the recollections of Hermann Bokum, a Union supporter living in Tennessee during the Civil War.

In Called to Serve, founding director Charles F. Hermann and writer Sally Dee Wade chronicle the twenty-year history of the George Bush School of Government and Public Service, which has rapidly evolved into one of the nation’s major professional graduate schools of public and international affairs. The...

It is the reign of the Emperor Augustus, and Publius Vergilius Maro, the poet of the Aeneid and Caesar's enchanter, has been summoned to the palace, where he will shortly die. Out of the last hours of Virgil's life and the final stirrings of his consciousness, the Austrian writer Hermann Broch fashioned...

Ruby is the youngest child in the tightly knit Bronstein family, a sensitive, observant girl who looks up to her older brothers and is in awe of her stern but gentle father, a Holocaust survivor whose past and deep sense of morality inform the family's life. But when Ruby is ten, her eldest brother...

Parçalanmanın eşiğindeki bir aileyi barındıran hüzünlü bir malikane Rosshalde. Ressam baba, mutsuz evililiğinin yarattığı düş kırıklığı içinde "kale"sine çekilmiş, bahçedeki atölyesinde kalırken, piyanist karısı ve onları bir arada tutan son bağ olan küçük oğulları...

Tüm yaşamı yollarda geçen ve yine yollarda sona eren bir göçebenin hikayesi Knulp. Canının çektiği yere "konan", ama çok duramayıp yine "uçan" bir özgür ruhun kısacık destanı.Hermann Hesse'ye göre, Knulp gibi figürlerin "kimseye yararı dokunmasa da, yararı dokunan kimilerine oranla...

This classic on the general history of functions was written by one of the twentieth century's best-known mathematicians. Hermann Weyl, who worked with Einstein at Princeton, combined function theory and geometry in this high-level landmark work, forming a new branch of mathematics and the basis of...

Acclaimed historian Hermann Giliomee explains the dramatic ascent - and possible demise - of a small minority group that dominated 20th-century South Africa. The Afrikaners are unique in the world in that they successfully mobilised ethnic entrepreneurship without state assistance, controlled the...

Eine klassische Romanze von Hermann Hesse.