germany

A little girl meets a hungry wolf in the forest while on her way to visit her grandmother.

A poor woodcutter's two children, lost in the woods, come upon a gingerbread house inhabited by a wicked witch.

A beautiful princess survives the murderous rage of her wicked stepmother with the help of seven kindly little men.

Presents a discussion, in English and Spanish, of the German national soccer team--known as the national 11--covering their history, achievements, famous players, and playing style, and includes photographs.

Contains the original Brothers Grimm folk and fairy tales, including "Rapunzel," "Hansel and Gretel," and "Cinderella.".

A brief biography of late nineteenth and early twentieth-century German physicist, Max Planck, whose research led to the discovery of the quantum theory.

Presents an illustrated collection of classic stories from Wilhelm and Jacob Grimm, and features "The Rabbit's Bride," "The Frog Prince," "Rapunzel," "Little Red-Cap," "Tom Thumb's Travels," "King Thrusbeard," "The Queen Bee," and many others.

A poor woodcutter's two children, lost in the woods, come upon a gingerbread house inhabited by a wicked witch.

"Tracking an underground language from one family's obsession to the outcasts who spoke it in order to survive. Centuries ago in middle Europe, a coded language appeared, scrawled in graffiti and spoken only by people who were "wiz" (in the know)-vagrants and refugees, merchants and thieves. This hybrid language was rich in expressions for police, jail, or experiencing trouble, such as "being in a pickle." And beginning with Martin Luther, German Protestants who disliked its speakers wanted to stamp it out. The Nazis hated it most of all. As a boy, Martin Puchner learned this secret language through his father and uncle. Only as an adult did he discover, through a poisonous 1930s tract on Jewish names, that his own grandfather, an historian and archivist, had been a committed Nazi who hated everything his sons and grandsons loved about "the language of thieves." Interweaving family memoir with scholarship and an adventurous foray into the politics of language, Puchner crafts an entirely original journey narrative"--Provided by publisher.

Presents the biography of the German scientist Wilhelm Roentgen and the story of how he discovered x-rays.