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A Synopsis - The beginning of the Berlin Wall story occurs in the aftermath of World War II. All of Germany is in ruins. Millions of Germans have been dislocated. The victorious Allies do not agree how best to govern the sectors into which Germany has been divided. A Cold War erupts and an Iron Curtain divides East and West. The communists encircle West Berlin with a wall. The years between the rise and fall of the Berlin Wall see the inhab...

In the depths of the dream world, knowing who to trust could be the end of everything. Hoping to be trained as a dream weaver, Isabella Shaw finds a dreamer in trouble. When the rescue goes drastically wrong, she begins to question herself. With her confidence shaken and unable to justify her choices, Isabella is approached to help a dream weaver in distress. She doubts she's the right person, but you can't always wait for the right person whe...

She wanted to stop the nightmares-instead, she accidentally fed her brother to them. To bring him home, she will need to face the darkness head-on.Plagued by nightmares and annoyed by her younger brother, Tucker, Isabella Shaw is desperate for a good night's sleep. When her father, who helped keep the nightmares at bay, needs to leave for an emergency business trip, Isabella tries to weave her brother a dream when something goes wrong. In the ...

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, the most fine-grained portrait we may ever have of the mechanism of terror in a dictatorship, focuses on the roles of the individual and of society in making terror work.

, the most fine-grained portrait we may ever have of the mechanism of terror in a dictatorship, focuses on the roles of the individual and of society in making terror work.

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A 1995 study of urban crime in Imperial Germany, questioning whether cities, in themselves, cause crime.

This book is concerned with the theoretical explanations that become possible after the translation into thermodynamic language has taken place.

A thorough assessment of the gripping yet gruesome topic of Latin American violence - an issue that is at the forefront of life and politics in the region today. Written by leading scholars from the Americas and Europe, this book is the most comprehensive study of the subject to date and it focuses specifically on state-supported murder and violence. The contributors trace the trajectory of murder and violence in the region over the past two c...

The product of years of study by scholars from North America and Europe, The Civilization of Crime demonstrates that both rural and urban communities in Sweden, Holland, England, and other countries were far more violent during the late Middle Ages than any cities are today.

Destined to become the classic study of terror in the Nazi dictatorship, and the benchmark for the next generation of Nazi and Holocaust scholarship

The story of firefighting in Ashtabula is almost as old as the community itself, beginning with the informal citizen bucket brigades of frontier necessity in the early decades of the 1800s. Between 1836 and 1911, the burgeoning Lake Erie port and manufacturing city was served by a cadre of dedicated volunteer fire companies, including the celebrated, award-winning Protection Fire Company. Ashtabula's rapid growth spurred the October 25, 1911, ...

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During the early decades of the 20th century, communication by postcard was an inexpensive and popular means of exchanging travel stories, news, and gossip across the United States. For just a few cents each, postcards connected friends and family separated by hundreds of miles. Rockford: 1900-World War I, with a collection of nearly 240 vintage postcard images, captures the details of this dynamic era and documents the Forest City's coming of...

A comprehensive guide to the gardens of Southern California, Arizona, Nevada, and New Mexico: more than fifty public gardens and two dozen commercial gardens. The book includes location and travel directions, hours, facilities, special attractions, annual events, and historical information. Filled with 67 large, full-color photos, "Beautiful Gardens" is an inviting tour of the special horticultural treasures of the West.