Winkler: 309 books

Jeder Mensch hat zwei Familien. Die, in die er hineingeboren wird, und die, für die er sich entscheidet. HOOL ist die Geschichte von Heiko Kolbe und seinen Blutsbrüdern, den Hooligans. Philipp Winkler erzählt vom großen Herzen eines harten Jungen, von einem, der sich durchboxt, um das zu schützen,...

A landmark exposé and “deeply engaging legal history” of one of the most successful, yet least known, civil rights movements in American history (Washington Post). In a revelatory work praised as “excellent and timely” (New York Times Book Review, front page), Adam Winkler, author...

This is the gripping story of the Tippecanoe campaign of 1811: 'The prophet's battle'. It was a conflict born out of festering tensions inscribed by the 1795 Treaty of Greeneville, which had concluded the Northwestern Indian War and attempted to prevent white settlers' encroaching onto newly defined...

A real-life thriller in the vein of The Devil in the White City, Kate Winkler Dawson's debut Death in the Air is a gripping, historical narrative of a serial killer, an environmental disaster, and an iconic city struggling to regain its footing. London was still recovering from the devastation...

A provocative history that reveals how guns—not abortion, race, or religion—are at the heart of America's cultural divide. Gunfight is a timely work examining America’s four-centuries-long political battle over gun control and the right to bear arms. In this definitive and provocative...

Vivid, succinct, and highly accessible, Heinrich Winkler's magisterial history of modern Germany offers the history of a nation and its people through two turbulent centuries. It is the story of a country that, while always culturally identified with the West, long resisted the political trajectories...

Welcome to Woop Woop: worst Australian movie of all time, or invaluable cultural artefact? With wild behind-the-scenes stories featuring Rod Taylor, Susie Porter, Johnathon Schaech, Barry Humphries, Stephan Elliott and a drunk clown; the mapping of links to other outback films; and a detailed argument...

Services – from information technology to research to finance – are now as subject to international trade as goods have been for decades. What are the labor market consequences of the recent surge in services offshoring? While offshoring has traditionally been found to affect only less-skilled...

“Every country (if she’s lucky) gets the Mark Twain she deserves, and Winkler is ours, bristling with savage Jamaican wit” (Marlon James). Being dead is most definitely an impediment to writing a book, under ordinary circumstances. But the narrator of this novel, Taddeus Augustus Baps,...

Eine Fahrt, die zur Legende wurde: Die Odyssee nach 'Ithaka' neu erzählt von Wolfgang Hohlbein und Dieter Winkler jetzt als eBook bei jumpbooks. Einst hat der kluge Odysseus mit einer List den Ausgang des Trojanischen Krieges besiegelt und so Ruhm und Ehre erlangt. Doch jetzt scheint ihm und seinen...

Vivid, succinct, and highly accessible, Heinrich Winkler's magisterial history of modern Germany, offers the history of a nation and its people through two turbulent centuries. It is the story of a country that, while always culturally identified with the West, long resisted the political trajectories...

In this short, first publication, Heather Winkler shares many of her favorite poetry pieces that consist of a dark theme. She explores heartache, loneliness, guilt, depression, and the ways of the world like never before. She also writes about the concepts of good and evil along with Heaven and Hell...

On the BC Robert Winkler was born in Budapest and graduated from high school. He was drafted into forced labor in 1944. After the war he entered the technical university of Budapest and graduated in structural engineering. He immigrated to the US in 1957 after the Hungarian Revolution and had a productive...

A novel of a Jamaican woman’s adventures, from an author with “a fine ear for patois and dialogue, and a love of language that makes bawdy jokes crackle” (The New Yorker).   “An acclaimed comic novelist in his native Jamaica, Winkler makes a long overdue American debut with this laugh riot....