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Das berühmte Weihnachtskapitel aus dem Nobelpreis-Roman¿ Weihnachten bei den Buddenbrooks: Am 24. Dezember empfängt die Konsulin Buddenbrook ihre Gäste. Ein riesiger Tannenbaum, wundervoll geschmückt mit Silberflitter und einem Engel an der Spitze...

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A major literary event: a definitive new translation of the Nobel Prize--winner's great masterpiece--the entire tetralogy in one volume. Thomas Mann regarded his monumental retelling of the biblical story of Joseph as his magnum opus. He conceived...

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<p>Geplant als Novelle, als heiteres Gegenstück zum 'Tod in Venedig', entstand mit dem 'Zauberberg' einer der großen Romane der klassischen Moderne. Ein kurzer Besuch in einem Davoser Sanatorium wird für den Protagonisten Han...

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The world-famous masterpiece by Nobel laureate Thomas Mann-here in a new translation by Michael Henry HeimPublished on the eve of World War I, a decade after Buddenbrooks had established Thomas Mann as a literary celebrity, Death in Venice tells t...

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A "brilliant . . . perfectly nuanced translation" (The Boston Globe) of Thomas Mann's greatest short works A Penguin Classic Featuring his world-famous masterpiece, "Death in Venice," this collection of Nobel laureate Thomas Ma...

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Congress is the first branch of government in the American system, write Thomas E. Mann and Norman J. Ornstein, but now it is a broken branch, damaged by partisan bickering and internal rancor. The Broken Branch offers both a brilliant diagnosis o...

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The information world has undergone drastic changes since the publication of the 3rd edition of The Oxford Guide to Library Research in 2005, and Thomas Mann, a veteran reference librarian at the Library of Congress, has extensively revised his te...

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In this fourth edition of The Oxford Guide to Library Research Thomas Mann spells out the range of amazing resources available in research libraries that cannot be found on the Internet. These include not only the tens of millions of books, journa...

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The information world has undergone drastic changes since the publication of the 3rd edition of The Oxford Guide to Library Research in 2005, and Thomas Mann, a veteran reference librarian at the Library of Congress, has extensively revised his te...

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In this fourth edition of The Oxford Guide to Library Research Thomas Mann spells out the range of amazing resources available in research libraries that cannot be found on the Internet. These include not only the tens of millions of books, journa...

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Eight complex stories illustrative of the author's belief that "a story must tell itself," highlighted by the high art style of the famous title novella.

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"e;The great virtue of Royal Highness is its relaxed, fairy-tale quality that naturally brings the reader inside that 'Edwardian' calm which preceded everything common to contemporary social life. It is very easy to make connections ...

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Will American academic and research libraries be able to cope with the current technological, economic, and organizational issues that are bringing about rapid changes in information services or must fundamental changes first take place within the...

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A WALL STREET JOURNAL BESTSELLER If you're in any kind of leadership rolewhether at a company, a non-profit, or somewhere elsethere's a lot you can learn here.Bill Gates, Gates NotesHow could General Electricperhaps America's most iconic corporati...

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A WALL STREET JOURNAL BESTSELLER If you're in any kind of leadership rolewhether at a company, a non-profit, or somewhere elsethere's a lot you can learn here.Bill Gates, Gates Notes How could General Electricperhaps America's most iconic corporat...

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Thomas Mann's last great novel, first published in 1947 and now newly rendered into English by acclaimed translator John E. Woods, is a modern reworking of the Faust legend, in which Germany sells its soul to the Devil. Mann's protagonist, the com...

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Ken Thomas and Joe McMann have produced a magni?cent treatise on spacesuits, spacewalking, life support systems and escape systems. US Spacesuits is historical, massively comprehensive, precise, informative, relevant and readable. As an astronaut ...

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Elections are the cornerstone of democratic government, yet among scholars several major issues remain unresolved in the study of voting choice. Incorporating work by a host of international scholars, Elections at Home and Abroad addresses a numbe...

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Two works by one of the 20th-century's great writers. In Death in Venice, a renowned author finds himself infatuated by a young boy--an attraction that proves to have fatal consequences. A Man and His Dog is a charming essay about Mann's canine co...

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Thomas Mann, fascinated with the concept of genius and with the richness of German culture, found in Johann Wolfgang von Goethe the embodiment of the German culture hero. Mann's novelistic biography of Goethe was first published in English in 1940...

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Thomas Mann's bold and disturbing novella, written in 1952, is the feminine counterpart of his masterpiece "Death in Venice". Written from the point of view of a woman in what we might now call mid-life crisis, "The Black Swan"...

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First published in 1951, "The Holy Sinner" explores a subject that fascinated Thomas Mann to the end of his life - the origins of evil and evil's connection with magic. Here Mann uses a medieval legend about 'the exceeding mercy of God a...

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"Royal Highness" is the delightfully ironic tale of a small, decadent German duchy and its invigoration by the intellect and values of an independent-minded American woman. Peopled with a range of characters from aristocrat to artisan, &...

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In this book, which was first published in 1958 and reissued in 1981, Professor Heller sees Mann as the late heir of the central tradition of modern German literature and also as one of the most ironic writers within that tradition. He offers a de...

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An illustrated collection of seventeen classic nursery rhymes with a fun animal twist. The stories were collected and illustrated by Thomas Mann. The include nursery rhyms are; Itsy Bitsy Spider , Baa Baa Black Sheep , Jack and Jill , Peter Peter ...

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A collection of over sixty American idioms, each clearly explained and accompanied by a simple illustration by Thomas Mann. Some of the included idioms are; Ace in the Hole, Level Headed, On a Roll, Put Your Nose to the Grindstone, and A Walk in t...

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Deuteronomy, Thomas Mann notes, is more than a relic of ancient history. It is a living document that deals with issues that have relevance for the modern-day reader, including justice and the vision of the Great Society, individual responsibility...

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(Book Jacket Status: Not Jacketed) Introduction by T. J. Reed; Translation by H. T. Lowe-Porter

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