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1560s Books (Study Guide) $14.14 Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher’s book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Chapters: Zimmern Chronicle, Ji Xiao Xin Shu, Relación de las cosas de Yucatán,. Source: Wikipedia. Free updates online. Not illustrated. Excerpt: The Zimmern Chronicle (German: Zimmerische Chronik or Chronik der Grafen von Zimmern) is a family chronicle describing the lineage and history of the noble family of Zimmern, based in Meßkirch, Germany. It was written in a Swabian variety of Early New High German by Count Froben Christoph von Zimmern (1519-1566). The chronicle is an eminent historical source of information about 16th century nobility in South-West Germany, its culture and its values. It is also an important literary and ethnological source for its many folkloristic texts. The text has survived in two manuscripts, both in possession of the Württembergische Landesbibliothek in Stuttgart. Froben Christoph von Zimmern and his wife (portrait from a manuscript of Froben’s uncle Wilhelm Werner, not containing the Zimmern chronicle)When the anonymous, unpublished chronicle was rediscovered in the 19th century, historians were not sure about the identity of the author (most of the chronicle is written in the third person, while at some times the writer slips into the first person). While some considered the author to be the famous law scholar and Imperial judge, Wilhelm Werner von Zimmern (Froben Christoph’s uncle), others believed count Froben Christoph and his secretary Johannes Müller († c. 1600) to be the writers. In 1959, Beat Rudolf Jenny proved in his thoroughly researched book that Froben Christoph is the sole author of the chronicle. However, Wilhelm Werner’s influence on his nephew is palpable in some passages. Writing or ordering a genealogy was a rather common form of representation for Germany’s noble families of the time. However, the Zimmern chronicle surpasses |
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Continental Philosophy $19.99 Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher’s book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Chapters: Structuralism, Situationist International, Phenomenology, Philosophy of Søren Kierkegaard, Caroline Joan S. Picart, French Philosophy, German Idealism, Deconstruction-And-Religion, Sturm Und Drang, Metaphor in Philosophy, Other, Jean Laplanche, Simulacrum, Index of Continental Philosophy Articles, Ontotheology, Dasein, Phenomenological Life, Value Judgment, Maxence Caron, Ljubljana School of Psychoanalysis, Afterwardsness, Multiplicity, Stephen David Ross, Genealogy, Face-To-Face, Foucault-Habermas Debate, Grace Jantzen, Alterity, Cartesian Meditations, Philosophy of Dialogue, Historical Subject, Deleuze Studies, Miran Božovic, French Theory, Derrida Today, Thrownness, Difference, Postmodernism, Or, the Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism. Excerpt: Class consciousnessClass struggle · CommunismDérive · DetournementGeneral Strike · RecuperationSpectacle · Unitary UrbanismWorkers Council World revolutionThe Situationist International (SI) was a restricted group of international revolutionaries founded in 1957, and which had its peak in its influence on the unprecedented general wildcat strikes of May 1968 in France. With their ideas rooted in Marxism and the 20th century European artistic avant-gardes, they advocated experiences of life being alternative to those admitted by the capitalist order, for the fulfillment of human primitive desires and the pursuing of a superior passional quality. For this purpose they suggested and experimented with the construction of situations, namely the setting up of environments favorable for the fulfillment of such desires. Using methods drawn from the arts, they developed a series of experimental fields of study for the construction of such situations, like unitary urbanism and psychogeography. They |
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Free Genealogy Software $8.59 Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher’s book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Not illustrated. Excerpt: GRAMPS, an acronym for Genealogical Research and Analysis Management Programming System, is free genealogy software. GRAMPS is programmed in Python using PyGTK. It uses Graphviz to create relationship graphs. The core export file format of GRAMPS is named GRAMPS XML and uses the file extension .gramps. It is extended from XML. GRAMPS usually compresses GRAMPS XML files with gzip. The file format Portable GRAMPS XML Package uses the extension .gpkg and is currently a .tar.gz archive including GRAMPS XML together with all referenced media. The user may rename the file extension .gramps to .gz for editing the content of the genealogy document with a text editor. Internally, GRAMPS uses Berkeley DB as the working database format. GRAMPS can import from the following formats: GRAMPS XML, GRAMPS Package (Portable GRAMPS XML), GRAMPS 2.x .grdb (older versions GRAMPS), GEDCOM, CSV. GRAMPS supports exporting data in the following formats: GEDCOM, GeneWeb’s GW format, Web Family Tree (.WFT) format , vCard, vCalendar, CSV. GRAMPS is available in the following languages: Brazilian Portuguese, Bulgarian, Catalan, Chinese (Simplified), Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, English, Esperanto, Finnish, French, German, Hebrew, Hungarian, Italian, Lithuanian, Norwegian, Polish, Romanian, Russian, Slovak, Slovenian, Spanish and Swedish. Selected release history: This article contains text from the GNU GPL GRAMPS Manual V2.9. … More: http://booksllc.net/?id=5574257 |
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German Genealogists: Johann David K Hler, Hans-Thorald Michaelis, Theodor Korselt, Robert Sommer, Paul Langheinrich $8.59 Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher’s book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Chapters: Johann David Köhler, Hans-Thorald Michaelis, Theodor Korselt, Robert Sommer, Paul Langheinrich, Stephan Kekulé Von Stradonitz. Not illustrated. Excerpt: Johann David Köhler (18 January 1684 10 March 1755) was a German historian . His academic focuses were on Roman coins as historical artifacts, ancient weapons, and genealogy. Köhler also served as university librarian at Altdorf and contributed to the early library science literature. Köhler was born in Colditz in the Electorate of Saxony and studied at the University of Wittenberg. He was a professor of logic and history at universities in Altdorf and later Göttingen and served briefly as university librarian at Altdorf. He died in Göttingen. Köhler came into scholarly prominence in a transitional period for European scholarship. From the Middle Ages and into the Enlightenment, European scholars were part of a “common culture of scholarship”, a respublica litteraria (Eskildsen 2005: 421). That common culture of scholarship was subjected to a series of nationalistic and religious pressures across the eighteenth century so that as Köhler came into prominence in the eighteenth century, there had been a shift from the pan-European imagined community to a more parochial nationalist one (Anderson 1991). His credentials as a library and information scientist are based upon three of his monographs: Syllogie aliquot Scriptorum de bene ordinanda et ornanda Bibliotheca, published in 1728; Hochverdiente und aus bewährten Urkunden wohlbeglaubte Ehren-Rettung Johann Guttenbergs, eingebohrnen Bürgers in Mayntz in 1741; and Anweisung für reisende Gelerte, Bibliothecken, Münz-Cabinette, Antiquitäten-Zimmer, Bilder-Sale, Naturalien- und Kunst-Kammern, u.d.m mit |
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In Search of a Childhood Song: Buried Memories: My German Mother’s Girlhood Escape from Communism $1.99 “Wow, Mom, that sounds like an awful trip,” I said.”No,” she said, her voice wavering. “It was the best trip of my life!”Upon hearing this statement at age thirteen, the author became hooked on her mother’s mysterious past and a three decade search for more details began. The remarkable story about her genealogy has proved fascinating to all who hear it. An ordinary Eastern European family grapples with extraordinary circumstances from the 1930s to the 1960s. Relating past and present adventures in Germany, Poland and the U.S., the author brilliantly narrates this exciting story of adversity and triumph. The family perseveres during WWII and the Cold War era integrating humor with optimism, determination, courage, ingenuity and love. The biography’s main character is Bärbel, the author’s mother. Born in a part of eastern Germany named Silesia, Bärbel grows up in Hitler’s Nazi Germany. Her small community survives wartime shortages and extremist policies, but circumstances take a turn for the worse when post-war agreements cede her Silesian hometown area to Poland under Soviet communist rule. The nineteen-year-old Bärbel is desperate to get out of communist Poland. Her strategy for escape takes her to a West German refugee camp, then Münster, Germany where she meets her future husband, a Serbian former POW now a displaced person. The story follows their marriage and immigration to the U.S. with the adventures and culture shock that ensues. Family members are separated due to politics, border changes and the Iron Curtain, including a twenty-year-old sister alone and homeless in the demolished free West with all communication cut off to the Sovietdominated East. Bärbel’s escape alters the entire family’s destiny. Each family member has different challenges and opportunities, but they work separately and together to tirelessly find each members’ way to freedom. |
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Japhetic $23.6 Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher’s book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Chapters: Japheth, Brutus of Troy, Gog and Magog, Japhetic, Togarmah, Hayk, Gomer, Tubal, Partholón, Hunor and Magor, Japhetic Theory, Magog, Kittim, Tiras, Javan, Madai, Meshech, Trojan Genealogy of Nennius, Kartlos, Fenius Farsa, Dodanim, Ashkenaz, Caucas, Elishah, Japhetic Languages, Riphath, Kozar. Excerpt: In the Bible, Ashkenaz is Gomer ‘s first son, brother of Riphath and Togarmah (Gen. 10:3, 1 Chronicles 1:6), thereby a Japhetic descendant of Noah . A kingdom of Ashkenaz is called together with Ararat and Minni against Babylon (Jer. 51:27). There is a theory that biblical Askhenaz ( ) arose from Ashk z ( ) (= the Scythians ) by an old misread of (nun ) for (vav ). Ashkenaz is also regarded as the father of the Scythians, Sarmatians , and other Indo-Aryans , due largely to the use of the name “Ashkuz” (Saka ) for the Scythians in Assyrian Akkadian inscriptions. It may also refer to the Phrygians , who according to Homer’s Iliad settled around Lake Ascania . In rabbinic literature Ashkenaz is believed to be the ancestor of the Germanic , Scandinavian and Slavic peoples , probably due to the similarity of the names Gomer and German, and the similarity of Ashkenaz to the name of Ask , the first human male in Norse mythology, or Aschanes (Askanius), mythological progenitor of the Saxons (see also: Oisc of Kent ). For this reason, Ashkenaz is the Medieval Hebrew name for Germany. Ashkenazi Jews , also known as Ashkenazic Jews or Ashkenazim (Standard Hebrew: sing. , pronounced , pl. (this ‘z’ is pronounced as in English “zip”, not German-fashion as “ts”); also Yehudei Ashkenaz, “the Jews of Ashkenaz”), are descended from the medieval Jewish communities of the Rhineland . Websites (URLs online) A hyperlinked version of this chapter is at Brutus of Troy, |
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Legacy Family Tree $44.13 Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Legacy Family Tree is genealogy software for Windows. The standard edition is distributed as freeware, with no restrictions, only requiring registration on the company’s web site to download the software. Users may pay a fee to “unlock” the additional features in the deluxe edition. The standard edition may thus be considered a kind of registerware and crippleware. Legacy is a full-featured genealogy program that assists family historians in tracking, organizing, printing, and sharing family history. Both the program and the help files are updated regularly in each of several languages. A printed manual and tutorial videos are available in English; the program and the help files are available in several languages, referred to as international releases. In addition to English (Australian, Canadian, UK and US versions), the Bokmål (Norwegian), Danish, Dutch, German, Nynorsk (Norwegian) and Swedish versions have been released. |
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Proceedings And Addresses (Volume 21) $23.09 The book has no illustrations or index. It may have numerous typos or missing text. However, purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original rare book from the publisher’s website (GeneralBooksClub.com). You can also preview excerpts of the book there. Purchasers are also entitled to a free trial membership in the General Books Club where they can select from more than a million books without charge. Volume: 21; Original Publisher: The Society.; Publication date: 1912; Subjects: Germans; Pennsylvania Dutch; German-Americans; History / United States / General; Reference / Genealogy; Social Science / Anthropology / Cultural; |
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Proceedings And Addresses (Volume 3) $19.99 The book may have numerous typos or missing text. It is not illustrated or indexed. However, purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original rare book from the publisher’s website. You can also preview the book there.Purchasers are also entitled to a trial membership in the publisher’s book club where they can select from more than a million books for free.Volume: 3 Original Publisher: The Society Publication date: 1893Original Identifier: ISBN:9059312929 Subjects: Pennsylvania Dutch; Germans; German-Americans; History / United States / General; Reference / Genealogy; Social Science / Anthropology / Cultural |
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Proceedings and Addresses (Volume 17) $14.51 The book has no illustrations or index. It may have numerous typos or missing text. However, purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original rare book from the publisher’s website (GeneralBooksClub.com). You can also preview excerpts of the book there. Purchasers are also entitled to a free trial membership in the General Books Club where they can select from more than a million books without charge. Volume: 17; Original Publisher: Pennsylvania-German Society; Publication date: 1908; Subjects: Germans; History / United States / General; Reference / Genealogy; Social Science / Anthropology / Cultural; |
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Proceedings and Addresses (Volume 24) $22.81 The book has no illustrations or index. It may have numerous typos or missing text. However, purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original rare book from the publisher’s website (GeneralBooksClub.com). You can also preview excerpts of the book there. Purchasers are also entitled to a free trial membership in the General Books Club where they can select from more than a million books without charge. Volume: 24; Publication date: 1916; Subjects: Pennsylvania Dutch; Reference / Genealogy; Social Science / Anthropology / Cultural; Social Science / Demography; |
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Proceedings and Addresses (Volume 27) $14.51 The book has no illustrations or index. It may have numerous typos or missing text. However, purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original rare book from the publisher’s website (GeneralBooksClub.com). You can also preview excerpts of the book there. Purchasers are also entitled to a free trial membership in the General Books Club where they can select from more than a million books without charge. Volume: 27; Original Publisher: The Society; Publication date: 1920; Subjects: Pennsylvania Dutch; Reference / Genealogy; Social Science / Anthropology / Cultural; Social Science / Demography; |
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Roman Towns and Cities: Latin Place-Names, Roman Towns Types, List of Latin Place Names in Continental Europe, Ireland and Scandinavia $21.42 Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher’s book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Chapters: Latin Place-Names, Roman Towns Types, List of Latin Place Names in Continental Europe, Ireland and Scandinavia, List of Roman Place Names in Britain, List of Latin Place Names in the Balkans, Évora, List of Latin Place Names in Britain, List of Latin Place Names in Italy and Malta, List of Latin Place Names in Asia, Albania, List of Latin Place Names in Africa, Municipium, Colonia, Hister, Oppidum, Civitas, List of Greek and Latin Place Names in Serbia, Stridon, Falacrine, Municipium Dardanicum, Eudaemon, Noviodunum, Neocorate, Ulma. Excerpt: This list includes European countries and regions that were part of the Roman Empire, or that were given Latin place names in historical references. As a large portion of the latter were only created during the Middle Ages, often based on scholarly etiology, this is not to be confused with a list of the actual names modern regions and settlements bore during the classical era. Until the Modern Era, Latin was the common language for scholarship and mapmaking. During the 19th and 20th centuries, German scholars in particular have made significant contributions to the study of historical place names, or Ortsnamenkunde. These studies have, in turn, contributed to the study of genealogy. For genealogists and historians of pre-Modern Europe, knowing alternate names of places is vital to extracting information from both public and private records. Even specialists in this field point out, however, that the information can be easily taken out of context, since there is a great deal of repetition of place names throughout Europe; reliance purely on apparent connections should therefore be tempered with valid historical methodology. Latin place names are not always exclusive to one place for example, there were se… More: |
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The German Element In The United States With Special Reference To Its Political, Moral, Social, And Educational Influence (Volume 2) $30.34 The book has no illustrations or index. It may have numerous typos or missing text. However, purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original rare book from the publisher’s website (GeneralBooksClub.com). You can also preview excerpts of the book there. Purchasers are also entitled to a free trial membership in the General Books Club where they can select from more than a million books without charge. Volume: 2; Original Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Co.; Publication date: 1909; Subjects: Germans United States; Germans; German Americans; History / United States / General; Reference / Genealogy; Social Science / Anthropology / Cultural; Social Science / Emigration |
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The German Element in the United States With Special Reference to Its Political, Moral, Social, and Educational Influence (Volume 1) $34.66 The book has no illustrations or index. It may have numerous typos or missing text. However, purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original rare book from the publisher’s website (GeneralBooksClub.com). You can also preview excerpts of the book there. Purchasers are also entitled to a free trial membership in the General Books Club where they can select from more than a million books without charge. Volume: 1; Original Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Co.; Publication date: 1909; Subjects: Germans; German Americans; History / United States / General; Reference / Genealogy; Social Science / Anthropology / Cultural; Social Science / Emigration |
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The History of the Old Eagle School, Tredyffrin, in Chester County, Pennsylvania; With Alphabetical Lists of Interments in the Graveyard and of $21.19 The book has no illustrations or index. It may have numerous typos or missing text. However, purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original rare book from the publisher’s website (GeneralBooksClub.com). You can also preview excerpts of the book there. Purchasers are also entitled to a free trial membership in the General Books Club where they can select from more than a million books without charge. Title: The History of the Old Eagle School, Tredyffrin, in Chester County, Pennsylvania : With Alphabetical Lists of Interments in the Graveyard and of German Settlers in Chester County, and a Poem Presenting the Suggestive Features of the Place; Original Publisher: Philadelphia, Pa. : J.C. Winston Co.; Publication date: 1909; Subjects: German Americans; Epitaphs; Germans; History / General; History / Europe / Germany; Reference / Genealogy; Social Science / Anthropology / Cultural; Social Science / Emigration |
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Works By Friedrich Nietzsche $21.02 Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher’s book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Chapters: Books by Friedrich Nietzsche, Compositions by Friedrich Nietzsche, Essays by Friedrich Nietzsche, the Antichrist, Thus Spoke Zarathustra, the Birth of Tragedy, on the Genealogy of Morality, Philosophy in the Tragic Age of the Greeks, Human, All Too Human, Friedrich Nietzsche Bibliography, Beyond Good and Evil, the Will to Power, Untimely Meditations, My Sister and I, the Gay Science, Twilight of the Idols, Ecce Homo, Hymnus an Das Leben, on Truth and Lies in a Nonmoral Sense, Zarathustra’s Roundelay, Nietzsche Contra Wagner, the Case of Wagner, the Dawn. Source: Wikipedia. Free updates online. Not illustrated. Excerpt: The Anti-Christ (German: ) (also could be translated as The Anti-Christian) is a book by the philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche, originally published in 1895. Although it was written in 1888, its controversial content made Franz Overbeck and Heinrich Köselitz delay its publication, along with Ecce Homo. The German title can be translated into English as both “The Anti-Christ” and “The Anti-Christian.” The English word “Christian” is called a weak noun in German and, in the singular nominative case, it is translated as “der Christ.” Given the content of the book, the title is likely to imply both connotations (the same way as the word “Antichristianity” would in English). Nietzsche claimed in the Foreword to have written the book for a very limited readership. In order to understand the book, he asserted that the reader “… must be honest in intellectual matters to the point of hardness to so much as endure my seriousness, my passion.” The reader should be above politics and nationalism. Also, the usefulness or harmfulness of truth should not be a concern. Characteristics such as “Strength which prefers questions for which no one today is sufficiently daring; courage |
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Works by Friedrich Nietzsche: Books by Friedrich Nietzsche, Compositions by Friedrich Nietzsche, Essays by Friedrich Nietzsche, the Antichrist $21.61 Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher’s book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Chapters: Books by Friedrich Nietzsche, Compositions by Friedrich Nietzsche, Essays by Friedrich Nietzsche, the Antichrist, Thus Spoke Zarathustra, the Birth of Tragedy, on the Genealogy of Morality, Philosophy in the Tragic Age of the Greeks, Human, All Too Human, Friedrich Nietzsche Bibliography, Beyond Good and Evil, the Will to Power, Untimely Meditations, My Sister and I, the Gay Science, Twilight of the Idols, Ecce Homo, Hymnus an Das Leben, on Truth and Lies in a Nonmoral Sense, Zarathustra’s Roundelay, Nietzsche Contra Wagner, the Case of Wagner, the Dawn. Excerpt: Beyond Good and Evil Beyond Good and Evil (German: Jenseits von Gut und Böse ), subtitled “Prelude to a Philosophy of the Future” (Vorspiel einer Philosophie der Zukunft ), is a book by the German philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche , first published in 1886.It takes up and expands on the ideas of his previous work, Thus Spoke Zarathustra , but approached from a more critical, polemical direction.In Beyond Good and Evil , Nietzsche attacks past philosophers for their alleged lack of critical sense and their blind acceptance of Christian premises in their consideration of morality. The work moves into the realm “beyond good and evil ” in the sense of leaving behind the traditional morality which Nietzsche subjects to a destructive critique in favour of what he regards as an affirmative approach that fearlessly confronts the perspectival nature of knowledge and the perilous condition of the modern individual.Background and themes Of the four “late-period” writings of Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil most closely resembles the aphoristic style of his middle period. In it he exposes the deficiencies of those usually called “philosophers” and identifies the qualities of the “new philosophers”: imagination, |