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The ideal of a new Germany swept up Sophie Scholl in a maelstrom of patriotic fervor - that is, until she realized the truth behind Hitler's machinations for the fatherland. Now she and other students in Munich, the cradle of the Nazi government, have banded together to form a group to fight for the truth: the White Rose. Risking everything to print and distribute leaflets calling for Germans to rise up against the evil permeating their country, the White Rose treads a knife's edge of discovery by the Gestapo.

A year after Germany's defeat, Gregor Reinhardt has been hired back onto Berlin's civilian police force. The city is divided among the victorious allied powers, but tensions are growing, and the police are riven by internal rivalries as factions within it jockey for power and influence with Berlin's new masters. When a man is found slain in a broken-down tenement, Reinhardt embarks on a gruesome investigation.

Every novelist dreams of it--writing the book that rockets to the top of the bestseller lists. Now, they can see how it's done, up close, in an audiobook by an agent who has sold manuscripts that turned into hits. Here Albert Zuckerman covers the essential elements of the blockbuster novel and...

Es ist vielleicht nicht so allgemein bekannt, aber es gibt lebendige britische Gemeinschaften in Deutschland. In der Februar-Ausgabe von "Spotlight Audio" treffen Sie eine dieser traditionsreichen Expat-Gemeinschaften. Ebenfalls in diesem Monat: die Schönheit der walisischen Landschaft und außerdem die Frage, ob soziale Netzwerke wie Facebook und Twitter genügend Verantwortung für die Inhalte ihrer Seiten übernehmen. Englisch lernen mit "Spotlight Audio"!

In dieser Ausgabe von Spotlight Audio bekommen Sie etwas Besonderes geboten - hier geht es ums Essen - mit Rezepten, Interviews und Übungen. Die Reihe mit satirischen Märchen ist ebenfalls wieder dabei. Diesmal liegt der Fokus auf der Vergangenheitsform present perfect. Grammatik lernen hat noch nie so viel Spaß gemacht! Und in der Kurzgeschichte muss sich ein unglücklicher Mann einem Geist aus seiner Vergangenheit stellen.

Wer sind heute die wichtigsten und einflussreichsten Menschen in Großbritannien? In der April-Ausgabe 2018 von "Spotlight Audio" stellen wir Ihnen brillante Persönlichkeiten und einige der klügsten Köpfe vor. Ebenso in dieser Ausgabe: Essex ist nicht gerade ein Touristenmagnet - es gilt als hässlich und öde. Diesen Ruf hat die Grafschaft nordöstlich von London nicht verdient: Idyllische Landschaften und bezaubernde historische Städte haben durchaus ihren Reiz.

Vertiefen Sie sich in der März-Ausgabe von "Spotlight Audio" in die aufregende Vergangenheit der britischen Hauptstadt - in London sind vergangene Zeiten immer noch lebendig. Außerdem: Las Vegas hat weit mehr zu bieten als Casinos und riesige Hotelanlagen. Entdecken Sie die Wüstenstadt im Reiseteil. Und finden Sie in "English at Work" heraus, wie wichtig es ist, sich in der Geschäftskommunikation kurz zu fassen.

In the wake of World War I, the German army lay in ruins - defeated in the war, sundered by domestic upheaval, and punished by the Treaty of Versailles. A mere 20 years later, Germany possessed one of the finest military machines in the world, capable of launching a stunning blitzkrieg attack against Poland in 1939. Well-known military historian Robert M. Citino shows how Germany accomplished this astonishing reversal and developed the doctrine, tactics, and technologies that its military would use to devastating effect in World War II.

The spellbinding and revealing chronicle of Nazi-occupied Paris. On June 14, 1940, German tanks entered a silent and nearly deserted Paris. Eight days later, France accepted a humiliating defeat and foreign occupation. Subsequently, an eerie sense of normalcy settled over the City of Light. Many...

A bold, arresting new work of fiction from the acclaimed author of Everything Matters! and the forthcoming novel The One-Eyed Man (March 2017) In this tour de force of imagination, Ron Currie asks why literal veracity means more to us than deeper truths, creating yet again a genre-bending novel...

Portraying himself as a failure, the protagonist of Osamu Dazai's No Longer Human narrates a seemingly normal life even while he feels himself incapable of understanding human beings. Oba Yozo's attempts to reconcile himself to the world around him begin in early childhood, continue through high...

The first English translation of celebrated Swiss-German novelist Sibylle Berg, Grime is a manifesto for fury, escape, and individual...

A resilient Turkish writer's inspiring account of his imprisonment that provides crucial insight into political censorship amidst the global rise of authoritarianism. The destiny I put down in my novel has become mine. I am now under arrest like the hero I created years ago. I await the decision...

With Culturally Sustaining Practice as its foundation, Textured Teaching helps secondary teachers in any school setting stop wondering and guessing how to implement teaching and learning that leads to social justice. Lorena shares her framework for creating a classroom environment that is highly rigorous and engaging, and that reflects the core traits of Textured Teaching: student-driven, community centered, interdisciplinary, experiential, and flexible.

After her mother’s passing, Aldona finds a tin filled with old letters from a prisoner at Ravensbrück, a women’s concentration camp in northern Germany. Amid the descriptions of daily deprivations and humiliations at the camp, she uncovers the heart-wrenching story of a small circle of women who risked their lives to hide a baby girl from the guards. Aldona is rocked to the core by this record of courage and sisterhood during one of the grimmest chapters of human history.

While watching her Chinese immigrant son-in-law learn the English language, it became apparent to the author that prepositions are one of the most difficult concepts to comprehend. Therefore, The Dance of the Caterpillars was written as a fun way to teach prepositions. This exciting bilingual German-English children's book contains 22 prepositions, one two-word multiple, and two three-word multiples. It is destined to become a valuable learning tool for children as well as English as a second language students.

A thrilling tale of encounters with nature’s masters of biochemistry In Venomous, the molecular biologist Christie Wilcox investigates venoms and the animals that use them, revealing how they work, what they do to the human body, and how they can revolutionize biochemistry and medicine today...

Focus your English learning on the most frequently used verbs. Learn just the 100 verbs you need for everyday life to talk about the past, the present, and the future. One of the usual mistakes when learning a foreign language is that the student has no priorities. All the unknown verbs get the same attention. Actually, to communicate you need only 100 verbs in any language. These verbs are the most frequently used and can be defined using an algorithm that provides the ranking.

Mistress Simone is over on an exchange visit, but the fifty-year-old German femdom isn’t exactly what husband and wife duo Andrew and Charlotte were expecting. Listen as Simone takes control, dominating submissive Charlotte while she gives Andrew the racy pleasure that his wife is too timid to dole out in this cuckquean, ffm, bdsm, anal sex story that sees wifey Charlotte degraded and humiliated.

Experience the fourth episode of the Baumgartner & Momsen detective story series for German learners on your stereo or headphones, at home or on the go! The narration style and speed of this audio book is aimed at providing learners with real-world spoken German which is clearly understandable, not too fast, but also not too slow.