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Consumption on the home front during the Second World War : a transnational perspectiv / Hartmut Berghoff -- The home front and food insecurity in wartime Japan : a transnational perspective / Sheldon Garon -- The hidden world of Soviet wartime food provisioning : hunger, inequality, and corruption / Wendy Z. Goldman -- Food consumption in Britain during the Second World War / Ina Zweiniger-Bargielowska -- Deprivation and indulgence : Nazi consumption policy on tobacco / Nicole Petrick-Felber -- 'Not the least of all that you will prize among the blessings of peace' : commercial advertising and imagining the postwar world in Britain / David Clampin -- For the sake of the nation : mobilizing for war in Japanese commercial advertisements 1937-1945 / Annika A. Culver -- Advertising and consumers in Second World War Germany / Pamela E. Swett -- Vicarious consumption : fashion in German media and film during the war years 1939-1943 / Mila Ganeva -- Soviet wartime fashion as a phenomenon of culture and consumption / Sergey Zhuravlev -- Strategic austerity : the Canadian middle path / Bettina Liverant -- From wartime research to postwar affluence : European émigrés and the engineering of American wartime consumption / Jan Logemann -- A consumer society shaped by war : the German experience 1935-1955 / Uwe Spiekermann -- War after war : the Soviet mobilization model and mass consumption in the 1940s and 1950s / Oleg V. Khlevniuk -- The lessons of war : reordering the public and private capacities and dynamics of consumption / Frank Trentmann

Terror, Sexualdelikte, Amok - immer wieder erreichen uns Berichte von schockierenden Gewalttaten. Wodurch entsteht diese Gewalt? Wie kann ihr entgegen gewirkt werden? Auf diese und andere Fragen geht die erfahrene Sachverständige für Forensische Psychiatrie in ihrem Buch ein

Submission -- Purity, necessity unity -- Rebellion -- Feminism -- Submissive or subversive

"In 1983, then-US Vice President George H.W. Bush delivered a speech in London. He had just been in West Berlin and spoke about his first visit to the Berlin Wall. Bush then went on to describe another German wall he saw after Berlin: 'If anything, that wall was an even greater obscenity than its eponym to the north.' The story of that wall is a fascinating and valuable slice of the history of post-war Europe. That wall had gone up nearly two hundred miles southwest of Berlin at the edge of divided Germany, in the tiny, remote farming village of Modlareuth. For nearly half the twentieth century, the Iron Curtain divided Modlareuth in two. In this little valley surrounded by forests and fields, the villagers of Modlareuth found themselves on the literal front-line of the Cold War. The East German state gradually militarized the border through the community while eastern villagers exhibited a range of responses to cope with their changing circumstances, reflective of the variable nature of the Cold War border through Germany: along the Iron Curtain, the size and isolation of the divided place influenced the local character of the division"--Provided by publisher.

"A concise, informal account of the ways in which information and society are related, and of our ever-increasing dependence on a complex multiplicity of messages, records, documents, and data

In the course of their lifetime, one out of two men and one out of three women will be diagnosed with cancer. Many of us watch in desperation as our friends and loved ones fight for their lives. But after seeing several of her patients and her dearest aunt engage in a battle with cancer, Dr. Christine Meyer decided to embark on a quest for hope--and through happenstance and love, a team of runners emerged that empowered a community to make a difference, not only in the lives of cancer patients, but in one another's lives. Along the way, Meyer learned that the true measure of a doctor's success is not the number of lives saved but the number of lives touched