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Ernst Lubitsch's American Comedy
Published in Paperback by Columbia University Press (1987)
Authors: William Paul and Andrew X. Sarris
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the best book ever written about Lubitsch
Lubitsch is one of the ten greatest filmmakers. Ernst Lubitsch's American Comedy is the best analysis yet written about his films. It's a shame that it's out of print, but anybody interested in Lubitsch should try to hunt it down.


Official Guide to LGB
Published in Hardcover by Greenberg Pub (1998)
Authors: Bob Roth and Decker Doggett
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Official Guide to LGB
Aside from some small errors and a missing index, this book is the definitive guide to LGB. A must have book for anyone who owns or collects LGB engines and/or cars. A very well written narrative accompanies each description. This book is timely and well done. Highly recommended!


The Principle of Hope, Vol. 1 (Studies in Contemporary German Social Thought)
Published in Paperback by MIT Press (26 May, 1995)
Authors: Ernst Bloch, Neville Plaice, Stephen Plaice, and Paul Knight
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Passionate thinker for hope and solidarity with the spirit
It's incredible no one takened the time to review this magnum opus of one of the most important committed thinkers of our time. Bloch's life itself well traversed almost a century,seeing himself and participating in the early innovative artistic movements,Expressionism, the plays of Brecht,Schoenberg's 12 Tone Dodecaphonic means. He also carried diatribes with the likes of Gyorgy Lukacs, as well as writers he admired Anna Siegel. Utopia is a realm that never seems to go away. For Bloch it was a way of gaining distance with the world,in fashioning a path toward it yourself. He said someplace that we all inhabit our own durational frames, and that we develop, or come to see our horizons not simultaneously as we have been taught to believe. This massive three-volume work is a mere encyclopedia tracing where mankind has found its horizon,sometimes placing it theri aritficially, as in art. Goethe Faust has a prominent place here as well as early secular religions of the world, how each shares this vision of Utopia Bloch so impassioned voice seeks. Marx is here as well, and it was Bloch who for want of a better term, introduced the warmer side of the human spirit to into Marxist discourse. Bloch, as Adorno,Horkheimer,even Lukacs, were not really political animals,nor consummate players, so they each saw the Soviet Union as some hope, less Adorno,who was skeptical of everything. The early religious leader Thomas Munzer, Luther's arch enenmy during the burgeoning Reformation and the Peasant Wars is also a point of reference for Bloch. And music makes an entrance, however Bloch really never got to know modernist repertoire, his thoughts are abssorbed with the classics, Mozart,Beethovem Bruckner and Wagner all have places in his Utopian edifice.


The Bear: An Opera Vocal Score
Published in Paperback by Oxford University Press (1967)
Authors: William Walton, Paul Dehn, Ernst Roth, Roy Douglas, Anton Pavlovich Medved Chekhov, and Library of Congress Serge Koussevitzky Music Foundation
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An Awesome story for all ages!
The Bear by Anton Chekhov was one the most interesting yet provokative stories I've ever read. This play shows the interesting relationships between men and women. I am 16 yrs. old and my acting class is doing this play for competition. This play is the first one that the entire class fully enjoyed.

Want to laugh at the nature of man?
The Bear by Anton Chekhov is one of the best plays that I have read in my entire life. It features funny prose which makes the reader think about the nature of mankind and how he will go to any lengths to have what he wants. Smirnov (the main character) at first wants the money that an old colleague of his owes him from his wife and then falls in love with the mourning widow. He is spured on by the insesant denial from the woman that he can not have the money and falls for her fiery nature. A great read and I urge all readers of his plays to read this little beauty

Great play!
This play was a great description of how men react to women. It's a great laugher and I recommend it fully!


The Violent Eye: Ernst Junger's Visions and Revisions on the European Right (Kritik: German Literary Theory and Cultural Studies Series)
Published in Hardcover by Wayne State Univ Pr (1992)
Author: Marcus Paul Bullock
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A thorough, but somewhat slanted approach to Junger
The place for a full review of this book is in an academic journal of some sort.-Consequently, this is not my task here. I'm limiting my critique to what I find most fascinating and controversial in the work, contained in the first chapter, The Prose of Apocalypse, where Bullock finds marked similarities between a passage of Junger's and Shelley's "Mount Blanc." Bullock (perhaps because he is a professor of German?) finds that Junger and his teutonic colleague Benjamin plumb greater depths than Shelley. Thus, for Bullock, what look at first to be similarities merely point to the greater depth of Junger's metaphysics. Here is the difference: Junger says, "...the unity and multiplicity of our so mysterious world are hidden"; while Shelley says, "The secret strength of things which governs thought, and to the infinite dome of heaven is a law, inhabits thee! And what were thou, and earth, and stars, and sea, if to the human mind's imaginings silence and solitude were vacancy?" The last question of Shelley's poem is clearly rhetorical and it is clear that Shelley sees a "secret stength of things" in this poem where Junger feels only only hidden, perhaps dark, mystery.-But this comparison, meant to show that Junger is the more profound, is hardly fair to Shelley and, in fact, sets the great English poet up as a foil.-What, if instead of "Mount Blanc," Bullock had chosen Shelley's ironic, despairing poem, "The Triumph of Life," unfinished because Shelley drowned himself before completion? Its images are darker by far than Junger's, a parade of grotesque twisted shapes ravaged by time, and Shelley's last line, after a lifetime and a mass of work delving into these dark metaphysical matters is heartshattering, " 'Then what is life?' I cried."-Bullock, in fairness to him, later in the book seems to imply not so much that the Germans gazed deeper into the abyss than a poet like Shelley. But that Junger's "auratic prose" is somehow better writing. The reader must, of course, be the judge of this. I personally find what Bullock calls (not altogether complimentarily) Shelley's attachment to the "sublime" and Junger's manly confrontation with the abyss a more than somewhat nonsensical and tendentious semantic wordplay.-Both men were interested in the sublime and both courageously confronted the abyss.-Bullock more or less admits this later on.-One should always be careful using terms like "the sublime" and "the abyss." They've been the subjects of so much academic doublespeak over the years that one hardly knows what one means by using them anymore.-Enough said, anyone interested in Junger (or Shelley, for that matter) should read this book. Anything that provokes thought and meditation is so rare these days.


Whistler in the Dark (American Girl History Mysteries, 16)
Published in Hardcover by Pleasant Company Publications (2002)
Authors: Kathleen Ernst, Jean-Paul Tibbles, and Greg Dearth
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Whistler In The Dark Is A Great Historical Mystery Book!
Whistler in the Dark is a great historical mystery book about a twelve-year-old girl, Emma Henderson, who is sad because her father was killed in the Civil War, and her mother has no time to spend with her. When her mother decides to wear a Reform Dress and move to Colorado to start a newspaper, Emma is even more upset. But her troubles become even worse when they arrive in Twin Pines. The gold rush town has no houses, no schools, and no other girls Emma's age. Someone also doesn't want the newspaper to succeed and sends them a threatening note, dumps their ink, and does awful things to try and scare them off. Emma is also scared because a ghost-like figure has followed them from Chicago and, each night, goes by her window at the boarding house and whistles a tune that her dead father used to whistle all the time. At the end of the story, Emma figures out who is trying to scare them away from Twin Pines, and who is the secret whistler. Emma also learns to admire her mother for going West where she could be more than just a mother.

I read this book for my 4th grade teacher, Mrs. Maull (who rocks!) The book was a little bit scary at one point, but it was still really a great book. I loved learning about how women couldn't wear pants or do a lot of jobs other than be a mom or wife! My grandmother read the book and loved it, too. So I recommend this book to all girls of all ages!


Whales, with Book
Published in Audio Cassette by (1986)
Author: Audio Source of America
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Uninteresting Rehash
Readers looking for insights into the post-communist situation will be disappointed by this lackluster, sterile treatment.


Acht Einakter : Erstdrucke
Published in Unknown Binding by Lechte ()
Author: Paul Ernst
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Advanced Imaging in Coronary Artery Disease: Pet, Spect, Mir, Ivus, Ebct
Published in Hardcover by Kluwer Academic Publishers (15 May, 1998)
Authors: E. Van Der Wall, Netherlan European Conference on Cardiac Pet Research 1998 Groningen, Ernst Van Der Wall, and Paul K. Blanksma
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The Alpine Journal, 1988/89
Published in Hardcover by Century Hutchinson (1989)
Authors: Ernst Sondheimer and Paul Loewen
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