Author: Hans Magnus Enzensberger
Publisher: Burns & Oates
ISBN: 9780826400826
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 184

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Author: Hans Magnus Enzensberger
Publisher: A&C Black
ISBN: 9780826402684
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 276

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Author: Hans Magnus Enzensberger
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780141306803
Category : Time travel
Languages : en
Pages : 252

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Fifteen-year-old Robert is a dreamer: one evening his eyes blur over and he literally disappears. Robert has become a time traveller, but with little control over his ability he seems doomed to wander forever - until he appears in 17th-century Amsterdam and finds a slim chance of returning home.

Author: Hans Magnus Enzensberger
Publisher: Metropolitan Books
ISBN: 1429932422
Category : Mathematics
Languages : en
Pages : 272

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The international best-seller that makes mathematics a thrilling exploration In twelve dreams, Robert, a boy who hates math, meets a Number Devil, who leads him to discover the amazing world of numbers: infinite numbers, prime numbers, Fibonacci numbers, numbers that magically appear in triangles, and numbers that expand without . As we dream with him, we are taken further and further into mathematical theory, where ideas eventually take flight, until everyone-from those who fumble over fractions to those who solve complex equations in their heads-winds up marveling at what numbers can do. Hans Magnus Enzensberger is a true polymath, the kind of superb intellectual who loves thinking and marshals all of his charm and wit to share his passions with the world. In The Number Devil, he brings together the surreal logic of Alice in Wonderland and the existential geometry of Flatland with the kind of math everyone would love, if only they had a number devil to teach it to them.

Author: Hans Magnus Enzensberger
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 110

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Author: Irene Dische
Publisher: Image Connection
ISBN: 9780970276834
Category : Berlin Wall, Berlin, Germany, 1961-1989
Languages : en
Pages : 40

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Chronicles the adventures of Prince Esterhazy, a rabbit who goes to Berlin to find a bride and witnesses the destruction of the Berlin Wall.

Author: Hans Magnus Enzensberger
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 112

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The most recent book by Hans Magnus Enzensberger, Germany's most important and influential living poet.

Author: Hans Magnus Enzensberger
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780857423702
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 0

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Hans Magnus Enzensberger, widely regarded as Germany's greatest living poet, was already well known in the 1960s, the tempestuous decade of which Tumult is an autobiographical record. Derived from old papers, notes, jottings, photos, and letters that the poet stumbled upon years later in his attic, the volume is not so much about the man, but rather the many places he visited and people whom he met on his travels through the Soviet Union and Cuba during the 1960s. The book is made up of four longform pieces written from 1963 to 1970, each episode concluding with a poem and postscript written in 2014. Tumult is based on Enzensberger's personal experience as a left-wing sympathizer during that tumultuous decade and focuses on political events and their participants. Translated by Mike Mitchell, the book is a lively and deftly written travelogue offering a glimpse into the history of leftist thought. Dedicated to "those who disappeared," Tumult is a document of that which remains one of humanity's headiest times. "Enzensberger is the most important postwar writer you have never read."--London Review of Books

Author: Hans Magnus Enzensberger
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781565842090
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 144

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In "Civil Wars," Hans Magnus Enzensberger, Germany's most astute literary and political critic, chronicles the global changes taking place as the result of evolving notions of nationalism, loyalty, and community. Enzensberger sees similar forces at work around the world, from America's racial uprisings in Los Angeles to the outright carnage in the former Yugoslavia. He argues that previous approaches to class or generational conflict have failed us, and that we are now confronted with an "autism of violence" a tendency toward self-destruction and collective madness.

Author: Hans Magnus Enzensberger
Publisher: Pantheon
ISBN: 0307772500
Category : Travel
Languages : en
Pages : 355

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In this highly acclaimed and entertaining book, already "among the touchstones of the new travel writing" (Newsweek), one of West Germany's leading authors takes us on an insider's tour of Europe in the recent past. Focusing on Italy, Poland, Hungary, Sweden, Spain, and Portugal, he describes how Europe has been moving toward a new identity. Enzensberger makes a witty and knowledgeable traveling companion, delving into surprising corners and byways—from the back alleys of Budapest to the halls of the Italian mint—and striking up conversations with everyone from bankers to revolutionaries, astrologers to apparatchiks. In the process, he suggests that Europe's strength lies increasingly in embracing diversity and improvisation, not bigness and regimentation. He enables us to see with fresh eyes one of the most exciting parts of the world today.