A fascinating portrait of the turbulent political, social, and cultural life of the city of Berlin in the 1920s.[...]
This dazzling story of Hollywood during the decade of its greatest success is a social and cultural history of the movie capital's golden age. Its cast includes actors, writers, musicians and composers, producers and directors, racketeers and labor leaders, journalists and politicians in the turbule[...]
oThis study of Dionysus ...is also a new theogony of Early Greece.O NPublishers Weekly oAn original analysis ...of the spiritual significance of the Greek myth and cult of Dionysus.O NTheology Digest oWho is Dionysus? The god of ecstasy and terror, of wildness and of the most blessed deliveranceNt[...]
Die 44. Infanterie-Division kämpfte in Polen, im Frankreichfeldzug und in Russlands Weiten - bis Stalingrad, wo sie unterging. Die wenigen erhaltenen Fotos von Stalingrad können Hunger, Kälte, Verlassenheit, Not und Tod auch nicht annähernd wiedergeben. Die Härte des Kampfes übertr[...]
In many respects, this book is considered to be the best guide ever written on Homeric religion. The analysis by W. F. Otto, while being very careful in terms of interpretation, denotes an open consonance of the author with the spirit - sometimes brutal and, for our mentality, immoral - of Greek pol[...]