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Einstein in time and space

a life in 99 particles
"In Einstein in Time and Space, talented young science journalist Samuel Graydon captures the essence of Albert Einstein with an illuminating mosaic-99 intriguingly different particles that cumulatively reveal Einstein's contradictory and multitudinous nature. Glimpsed among these shards: a slacker who failed every subject but math, a job seeker who couldn't get hired, a lothario who courted many women, and a charmer who was the life of the party. As brilliant as he was inconsistent, Einstein was simultaneously an avid supporter of the NAACP and the fight for civil rights and someone capable of great prejudice. He was loved by many, known by few, and inspirational to a generation of young physicists. Graydon reveals every corner of Einstein's world: the false reporting that rocketed Einstein to fame nearly overnight, his effect on people he met merely in passing, even the remarkable posthumous journey of the famed physicist's brain. Entertaining, comforting, bolstering, and shocking, Einstein in Time and Space is the unique story of a man who redefined how we view our universe and our place within it.".

Hellstorm

the death of Nazi Germany 1944-1947
2010
"It was the most deadly and destructive war in human history. Millions were killed, billions in property was destroyed, ancient cultures were reduced to rubble--World War II was truly man's greatest cataclysm. Thousands of books, movies and documentary films have been devoted to the war. There has never been such a terrible retelling of the story, however, as one will find in Hellstorm. In a chilling "you-are-there" style, the author places the reader at the scene, in the moment. Throughout this book readers will see what Allied airman saw as they rained down death on German cities; or the reader will experience what those below experienced as they sat trembling in their bomb shelters awaiting that very same death from above. The reader will view up close the horrors of the Eastern Front during the last months of fighting and through the mud, blood and madness of combat they may come to understand how the same German soldiers, who only moments before had destroyed an enemy tank, could now risk their own lives to rescue the trapped Soviet crew inside. Readers will witness for themselves the fate of German women as the rampaging Red Army raped and murdered its way across Europe--all females, from "eight to eighty" feared the dreaded words, "Frau Komm." The worst nautical disasters in history which claimed thousands of lives, the greatest mass migration known to man in which millions perished, the fate of those wretched victims in post-war death camps and torture chambers, these and many other dark secrets of World War II now come to light in Hellstorm."--Publisher's information.

Games of deception

the true story of the first U.S. Olympic basketball team at the 1936 Olympics in Hitler's Germany
Profiles the first American Olympic basketball team, which participated in the 1936 Olympics in Nazi-controlled Germany. While Hitler considered the event little more than a chance to prove German athletic superiority, the Americans fought against a pervading belief that America should boycott the games, and rampant anti-Semitism both at home and abroad, succeeding against all odds. Discusses the team, the games they played, and their enduring legacy.

Games of deception

the true story of the first U.S. Olympic basketball team at the 1936 Olympics in Hitler's Germany
Presents the remarkable true story of the birth of Olympic basketball at the 1936 Summer Games, from its invention by James Naismith and debut in Hitler's Berlin to the eclectic mix of people, events and propaganda that made it possible.

Games of deception

the true story of the first U.S. Olympic basketball team at the 1936 Olympics in Hitler's Germany
2019
"The true story of the birth of Olympic basketball at the 1936 Summer Games in Hitler's Germany"--Provided by publisher.
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Johannes Gutenberg and the printing press

Explores the life of Johann Gutenberg and his invention of the movable-type printing press.

Queen of the bremen

the true story of an American child trapped in Germany during World War II
2012
It is 1939 when five-year-old Marlies Adams travels with her family on a transatlantic journey from America to Germany so that her mother can visit her terminally ill father. As the SS Bremen leaves New York Harbor with Marlies and her family as passengers, Marlies has no idea that what is intended to be a three-month stay will turn into a seven-year struggle to stay alive in a living hell.

El Enano Saltar?n

cuento de los Hermanos Grimm
1992
A strange little man helps the miller's daughter spin straw into gold for the king on the condition that she will give him her first-born child.

Holocaust

the Nazi persecution and murder of the Jews
2010
Argues that anti-Semitism was not a by-product of Nazi political mobilization or an attempt at distraction, but part of a master plan to implement, disseminate, and secure National Socialist rule in Europe, and explores the methods the Nazis used to carry out their mission.

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