History : Germany

This is an original case study of how a peasant society in early modern Europe sustained its economy, which relied on natural resources. It offers a study of southwest Germany's dependence on wood, demonstrating the stability of the economy and social structure through periods of demographic pressure, warfare and epidemic. more...

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Perhaps no medical breakthrough in the twentieth century is more spectacular, more hope-giving, or more fraught with ethical questions than organ transplantation. Each year some 25,000 Americans are pulled back from the brink of death by receiving vital new organs. Another 5,000 die while waiting for them. And what distinguishes these two groups has become the source of one of our thorniest ethical questions. In Raising the Dead, Ronald Munson offers a vivid, often wrenchingly dramatic account of how transplants are performed, how we decide who receives them, and how we engage the entire range of tough issues that arise because of them. Each chapter begins with a detailed account of a specific case--Mickey Mantle's controversial liver transplant, for example--followed by careful analysis of its surrounding ethical questions (the charges that Mantle received special treatment because he was a celebrity, the larger problems involving how organs are allocated, and whether alcoholics should have an equal claim on donor livers). In approaching transplant ethics through specific cases, Munson reminds us of the complex personal and emotional dimension that underlies such issues. The book also ranges beyond our present capabilities to explore the future possibilities in xenotransplantation (transplanting animal organs into humans) and stem cell technology that would allow doctors to grow new organs from the patient's own cells. Based on extensive scientific research, but written with a novelist's eye for the human condition, Raising the Dead shows readers the reality of organ transplantation now, the possibility of what it may become, and how we might respond to the ethical challenges it forces us to confront.  more...

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The Thirty Years War - the first great pan European war - ravaged Germany, but myth, propaganda and historical controversy have obscured its true nature. This title contains first-hand accounts of the war taken from the diaries, memoirs and chronicles of both soldiers and citizens. more...

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A fascinating study of the expansionist visions of Hitler and Mussolini which enlightens our understanding of the dynamics and evolution of the fascist policies of Italy and Germany to the end of the Second World War. more...

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During a pilgrimage to Germany with his father, Kempe promised he would one day write about the country. Twelve years later, as a correspondent for The Wall Street Journal Europe , he began a long journal of exploration in an attempt to answer questions that haunted him about his father's land: 'How could such an apparently good people with such a rich cultural history have done such evil things? What causes evil, and what breeds good? After only half a century of re-education and reconstruction, could the strength of German democracy and liberalism be as great as it seemed?' more...

Price: $14.35