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From the author of the acclaimed and much-loved Ali and Nino comes this enchanting and exotic novel of prewar Istanbul and fast-paced, decadent postwar Berlin.
It is 1928 and Asiadeh Anbara and her father, once members of the Turkish royal court, have fled the collapsing Ottoman Empire to start a new life in Berlin. Years ago, Asiadeh had been engaged to a Turkish prince, but now, under the spell of the West, the nineteen-year-old Muslim girl falls...
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Memoirs of the author, who was classified by the Nazis as a "Mischling" since his father was Catholic and he himself was baptized but his mother was born Jewish. He took part in various Catholic opposition circles and contacted, in his attempts to rescue Jewish relatives, a resistance group, the Solf Circle. Kuehn himself suffered relatively little from Nazi persecution.
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"Schinkel's Berlin is the first book in English devoted to his work and the first in any language to analyze his contributions to environmental planning. Mr. Pundt was one of the first Western scholars to gain access to the collection of nearly 4,000 original drawings and plans by Schinkel after it was returned to East Berlin by the Soviet Union in the early sixties; and he has also studied Schinkel's letters, diaries, official memoranda, and other...
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"A detailed historical look at the surprising ways in which the uninhibited urban sexuality, sexual experimentation and medical advances of pre-Weimar Berlin created and molded our modern understanding of sexual orientation and gay identity. Long known for the friendly company of its "warm brothers" (German slang for men who love other men), Berlin, even before the turn of the twentieth-century, was a place where educators, activists, and medical...
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Sie kommen nachts. MIt ihnen kommen Fotokopien, Tapetenbahnen, Kleister, Paketzettel und Sprühschablonen. Morgens sind ihre Aktivitäten sichtbar. An Fassaden, Trafohäuschen, auf Werbetafeln, Verkehrsschildern und Containern kleben geheimnisvolle Botschaften. Lässt der Betrachter sich einmal auf sie ein, wird er Linda, Gould, Mr. Robot, Tower, Fuck your Crew und die vielen Namenlosen nicht mehr los. Er wird süchtig nach neuen Botschaften. Sven...
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"Suffering severe abdominal pain, a woman is rushed to the emergency room of a decrepit urban hospital. Her soaring temperature, her deepening distress, her body's resistance to medicine all confound her doctors, who operate repeatedly." "Drifting in and out of consciousness, she endures a fever dream in which the boundaries between wakefulness, memory, and delusion blur then totally dissolve. Old friends and comforting strangers materialize at her...
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The bestselling author of "Devil in the White City" turns his hand to a remarkable story set during Hitler's rise to power. The time is 1933, the place, Berlin, when William E. Dodd becomes America's first ambassador to Hitler's Germany in a year that proved to be a turning point in history.
20) Top 10 Berlin
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Covers all the city's major sights and attractions in easy-to-use "top 10" lists that help you plan the vacation that's right for you.This newly updated pocket travel guide for Berlin will lead you straight to the best attractions the city has to offer, from the Reichstag and the Brandenburg Gate to the Berlin Wall and Museum Island.Expert travel writers have fully revised this edition of "DK Eyewitness Travel Guide: Top 10 Berlin." Brand-new itineraries...
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