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Paperback. Zustand: Very Good. With a well-defined cast, an intricate plot, and plenty of action, devotees of hardboiled police procedurals will find themselves breathless by the end. Great for fans of: James M. Cain, Dashiell Hammett, Jakob Arjouni.--Publishers WeeklySynopsis: When Homicide Detective Thomas Ritter transfers to Hamburg, he thinks the worst is behind him. No more threats of jail time from the Frankfurt rat squad for waterboarding a two-time kiddie rapist. Little does the former special op know he has stepped into the biggest police scandal in Hamburg history.No one told Ritter that his new partner, Motz Beck, is a moody biker with family ties to mob boss Willi Kaiser, who owns most of the whorehouses in town. Or that Kaiser is fighting a hostile takeover of his crown jewel, Herbertstrasse, from a casino owner, real estate shark, and heroin importer named Sulejman Hasani. Or that Hasani, a person of interest in half a dozen murders -- including that of Beck's former partner -- has business ties to the Hamburg Senate.Ritter is put in charge of a homicide investigation no one wants solved. Hamburg's interior senator has just been found dead on a St. Andreas cross in the S&M room of Herbertstrasse 7b -- one day before he is to introduce a senate bill declaring the street a national monument and thereby off limits to sharks like Hasani. Ritter and his new partner quickly conclude that the only people they trust less than each other are their bosses in City Hall.Publishers Weekly: This gritty police procedural, set in modern-day Hamburg, Germany, portrays a team of tough homicide detectives who delve into the city's grim underbelly in all its noirish glory. Thomas Ritter, a police officer with a mysterious past, transfers to Hamburg to take charge of a detective squad. He and his crew find themselves immersed in a murder with political overtones, when local official Mertens dies during an S&M game at a brothel. The investigation reveals ties to a well-connected crime boss, a dominatrix and her ex-con girlfriend, and a ruthless Albanian smuggler, whose stories come together in an explosive finish.Sarda, an American living in Germany, brings Hamburg's seedy side to life, with black-humored dialog and descriptions well-suited to a dark and violent story. When Ritter notes that the prison looks old-fashioned compared to the one in Frankfurt, another officer says, We're more traditional here. Still got bullet holes in the back wall, next to the guillotine. A suicide comes across in stark, bleak prose: The steam took the sting out of the first cut. She didn't even feel the second.Let it flow. Let it all out. Sarda doesn't stint on graphic descriptions of sex and violence - this is vigorous prose appropriate to the milieu but not for the easily offended.Ritter has a wounded psyche and his attempts to come to terms with who he has become thread through the book. Also well-limned is his partner Motz Beck, fighting his own inner demons and penchant for violence. Ritter and Motz's joint interrogation brilliantly shows how these two detectives, in spite of - or perhaps because of - their damaged characters, subtly break down a suspect. A pair of sex workers share a romance that elevates the characters far beyond tired stereotypes. With a well-defined cast, an intricate plot, and plenty of action, devotees of hardboiled police procedurals will find themselves breathless by the end.Takeaway: Fans of noir fiction will revel in this twisty story of tough cops, brutal gangsters and other denizens of Hamburg's underworld.Great for fans of: James M. Cain, Dashiell Hammett, Jakob Arjouni.…

Paperback. Zustand: Very Good. In this groundbreaking book Elizabeth Clare Prophet compares and contrasts the world views of two prominent thinkers not often mentioned in the same breath.On the one hand, a holistic and practical economic philosophy promoted by none other than Jesus Christ-a religious giant not normally associated with economic theories.On the other hand, the religious underpinnings of the economic and political philosophies of Karl Marx, a revolutionary thinker commonly believedto be an atheist.This unique analysis offers enlightening new answers to the pursuit of a just, more prosperous world.…

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Paperback. Zustand: Fair. "Thoroughly researched and beautifully written history."--New York Times Book Review "Absorbing . . . a David-and-Goliath tale of the industrial age."--Wall Street Journal A propulsive human drama that chronicles the mass exodus of Jews from Eastern Europe to America in the early years of the twentieth century, and the men who made it possible. Over thirty years, from 1890 to 1921, 2.5 million Jews, fleeing discrimination and violence in their homelands of Eastern Europe, arrived in the United States. Many sailed on steamships from Hamburg. This mass exodus was facilitated by three businessmen whose involvement in the Jewish-American narrative has been largely forgotten: Jacob Schiff, the managing partner of the investment bank Kuhn, Loeb & Company, who used his immense wealth to help Jews to leave Europe; Albert Ballin, managing director of the Hamburg-American Line, who created a transportation network of trains and steamships to carry them across continents and an ocean; and J. P. Morgan, mastermind of the International Mercantile Marine (I.M.M.) trust, who tried to monopolize the lucrative steamship business. Though their goals were often contradictory, together they made possible a migration that spared millions from persecution. Descendants of these immigrants included Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Estée Lauder, George Gershwin, Irving Berlin, Fanny Brice, Lauren Bacall, the Marx Brothers, David Sarnoff, Al Jolson, Sam Goldwyn, Ben Shahn, Hank Greenberg, Moses Annenberg, and many more--including Ujifusa's great grandparents. That is their legacy. Moving from the shtetls of Russia and the ports of Hamburg to the mansions of New York's Upper East Side and the picket lines outside of the notorious Triangle Shirtwaist Factory, The Last Ships from Hamburg is a history that unfolds on both an intimate and epic scale. Meticulously researched, masterfully told, Ujifusa's story offers original insight into the American experience, connecting banking, shipping, politics, immigration, nativism, and war--and delivers crucial insight into the burgeoning refugee crisis of our own time. Three men--a banker, a shipping magnate, and a monopolist--changed the course of history. A Forgotten Chapter of Jewish History: Follow the perilous journey of 2.5 million Jews from the shtetls of Eastern Europe to the ports of Hamburg and the promise of a new life in America. Maritime Power and Monopoly: Discover the untold story of Albert Ballin, head of the Hamburg-American Line, and his rival J. P. Morgan, who sought to control the profitable transatlantic steamship business. The Philanthropist and the Financier: Learn how investment banker Jacob Schiff used his immense wealth to facilitate the mass exodus, often putting him at odds with the other titans of the age. The Rise of American Nativism: Explore the political forces that fought to close America's golden door, connecting the Gilded Age immigration debate to the refugee crises of today.…

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Zustand: Good. Item in good condition. Textbooks may not include supplemental items i.e. CDs, access codes etc.

Hardcover. Zustand: Fair. First Edition. With dust jacket. The item might be beaten up but readable. May contain markings or highlighting, as well as stains, bent corners, or any other major defect, but the text is not obscured in any way.

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Hardcover. Zustand: Fair. No Jacket. Readable copy. Pages may have considerable notes/highlighting. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Hardcover. Zustand: Fair. No Jacket. Readable copy. Pages may have considerable notes/highlighting. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

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Paperback. Zustand: Good. One didn't dare to inhale for fear of breathing it in. It was the sound of eighteen hundred airplanes approaching Hamburg from the south at an unimaginable height. We had already experienced two hundred or even more air raids, among them some very heavy ones, but this was something completely new. And yet there was an immediate recognition: this was what everyone had been waiting for, what had hung for months like a shadow over everything we did, making us weary. It was the end.Novelist Hans Erich Nossack was forty-two when the Allied bombardments of German cities began, and he watched the destruction of Hamburg?the city where he was born and where he would later die?from across its Elbe River. He heard the whistle of the bombs and the singing of shrapnel; he watched his neighbors flee; he wondered if his home?and his manuscripts?would survive the devastation. The End is his terse, remarkable memoir of the annihilation of the city, written only three months after the bombing. A searing firsthand account of one of the most notorious events of World War II, The End is also a meditation on war and hope, history and its devastation. And it is the rare book, as W. G. Sebald noted, that describes the Allied bombing campaign from the German perspective.In the first English-language edition of The End, Nossack's text has been crisply translated by Joel Agee and is accompanied by the photographs of Erich Andres. Poetic, evocative, and yet highly descriptive, The End will prove to be, as Sebald claimed, one of the most important German books on the firebombing of that country. "A small but critical book, something to read in those quiet moments when we wonder what will happen next."?Susan Salter Reynolds, Los Angeles Times.…

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Zustand: Very Good. 1St Edition. Former library copy. Pages intact with possible writing/highlighting. Binding strong with minor wear. Dust jackets/supplements may not be included. Includes library markings. Stock photo provided. Product includes identifying sticker. Better World Books: Buy Books. Do Good. …

Zustand: Very Good. . English edition.

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Hardcover. Zustand: Good. No Jacket. Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

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Paperback. Zustand: Very Good. No Jacket. May have limited writing in cover pages. Pages are unmarked. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.