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Inside the Gas Chambers
Shlomo Venezia
This is a unique, eye-witness account of everyday life right at the heart of the Nazi extermination machine.
Slomo Venezia was born into a poor Jewish-Italian community living in Thessaloniki, Greece. At first, the occupying Italians protected his family; but when the Germans invaded, the Venezias were deported to Auschwitz. His mother and sisters disappeared on arrival, and he learned, at first with disbelief, that they had almost certainly been gassed...Read more
Michelangelo
Antonio Forcellino
This major new biography recounts the extraordinary life of one of the most creative figures in Western culture, weaving together the multiple threads of Michelangelo's life and times with a brilliant analysis of his greate
st works. The author retraces Michelangelo's journey from Rome to Florence, explores his changing religious views and examines the complicated politics of patronage in Renaissance Italy...Read more
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Weiss is Presidential Professor of Political Science at The CUNY Graduate Center and Director of the Ralph Bunche Institute for International Studies, where he is co-director of the UN Intellectual History Project. IN addition to serving as President of ISA, Weiss has also chaired the Academic Council on the UN System (ACUNS) for three years (2006-present). Alongside a distinguished career in the academy at CUNY and at Brown University, Weiss has also consulted for foundations and numerous inter-governmental and non-governmental organizations.
Thomas G. Weiss was installed as President of the International Studies Association at the organization’s annual meeting in New York on February 16. Weiss is the author of two Polity books: What’s Wrong with the United Nations and How to Fix It, just published, and Humanitarian Intervention(2007).
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America and its Critics
by Sergio Fabbrini
"In a century when no country can hope to escape from the influence of American power, it is vital to understand both its strengths and weaknesses." Read more
Fat - A Cultural History of Obesity
by Sander L. Gilman
"A vivid and absorbing cultural guide to one of the most important topics in modern society." Read more
Letters to his Wife
by Martin Heidegger
"There is something absolute about the letters between you & me. The letter is a form of communion of the soul-spirit - one that is faded & yet unimpeded, complete', wrote Martin Heidegger to his fiancée Elfride Petri shortly before their wedding." Read more
What’s Wrong with the United Nations and How to Fix It
by Thomas G. Weiss
"With considered optimism and in contrast to received wisdom, Weiss contends that substantial change in intergovernmental institutions is plausible and possible." Read more
