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Albert Einstein thought and wrote extensively not just on the most difficult problems in physics, but also in politics.

St. Martin's Press, 2009; 334 pp.; EN; index; hb

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O'Neill reads Montaigne's Essays from their central principle of friendship as a communicative and pedagogical practice operative in society, literature and politics. He also engages the principal critical readings of the Essays over the last century that have examined with great brilliance their history, structure and psychology.

Liverpool Univ., 2001; 264 pp.; EN; index; hb

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The aristocrcy haven't always been a very pleasant lot. In this wickedly funny journey into the irreverent side of history, you'll dicover the truth about the rich and powerful -whether good, bad, ugly, fat, bald, worthless, or even legless.

Penguin, 2006; 291 pp.; EN; ills. b/w; hb

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Twelve essays on Jewish culture as explored through the works of Joyce, Styron, Isaac Bashevis Singer a.o. One of the pieces exposes anti-Semitism in Thomas Wolfe, T.S. Eliot, Hemingway and Fitzgerald, then shows how stereotypes found in Chaucer, Shakespeare, Grimm reinforce anti-Jewish prejudices. He analyzes Leopold Bloom of Joyce's Ulysses as a self-deprecating Irish Jew. Fiedler also wrestles with his own Jewish identity, meditates on the Holocaust and Job, and critiques Malamud a.o.

David Godine; 184 pp.; EN; pb

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Born into a Jewish family in Prague in 1883, Franz Kafka grew up amidst the social and political turn of the 20th century. His writing reflects these tensions as well as his own tortured emotional life. But it is his ability to transform his dream-like inner life into the language of the everyday, and at the same time, portray the terror facing the individual in a hostile, indifferent world that makes his world still speak to us today.

Overlook, 2004; 164 pp.; EN; ills. b/w & col; pb

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The great Colombian novelist Gabriel Garcia Marquez -winner of the Nobel Prize, the chief exponent of magic realism, and the author of a.o. One Hundred Years of Solitude and Love in the Time of Cholera- has continuously offered both challenges and delights to his readers. A superbly researched biography.

Knopf, 2009; 642 pp.; EN; index; ills. b/w; hb

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Worthen recreates the group's intertwined lives and the effect they had on one another. Drawing on the group's surviving letters, poems and diaries, he examines this extraordinary period in which Coleridge and Wordsworth worked on their finest poems.

Yale, 2001; 344 pp.; EN; index; ills. b/w; hb

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Idealized by her fans, denounced by her political opponents, and forever shadowed by controversy and scandal, novelist and philosopher Ayn Rand was a powerful thinker whose views on government and markets shaped the conservative movement from its earliest days. With unprecedented access to Rand's private papers and unedited journals, Jennifer Burns offers this reassessment of Rand, examining her life, her ideas, and her impact on conservative political thought.

Oxford, 2009; 369 pp.; EN; index; ills. b/w; hb

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This innovative study shows unexpected relations between Goethe the artist and Goethe the posthumous tradition. Bennett focuses on Goethe's own struggle with the idea of reading and with an understanding of the wrongness of literature.

Wayne State Univ., 2001; 274 pp.; EN; index; hb

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Situated between classical rhetoric and the novel, the English periodical essay emerged in the 18th century, challenging the borders between fiction and nonfiction prose and helping to forge the tastes and values of the rising middle classes. This authoritative anthology is the first to gather in one volume the consummate periodical essays of the period.

Yale, 2008; 427 pp.; EN; pb

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