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Author: Andrea Hiott Publisher: Random House Digital, Inc. ISBN: 0345521420 Category : Transportation Languages : en Pages : 514
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Published to coincide with the release of the newly redesigned VW Beetle, a history of the iconic car reveals the agendas of famous design contributors including Ferdinand Porsche, Adolf Hitler and Heinrich Nordhoff, describing the 1950s advertising campaign in America that launched its phenomenal success.
Author: Andrea Hiott Publisher: Random House Digital, Inc. ISBN: 0345521420 Category : Transportation Languages : en Pages : 514
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Published to coincide with the release of the newly redesigned VW Beetle, a history of the iconic car reveals the agendas of famous design contributors including Ferdinand Porsche, Adolf Hitler and Heinrich Nordhoff, describing the 1950s advertising campaign in America that launched its phenomenal success.
Author: Bertolt Brecht Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing ISBN: 1472582748 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 211
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Bertolt Brecht's extraordinary historical novel presents an aspiring scholar's efforts to write an idealized life of Julius Caesar twenty years after his death. But the historian abandons his planned biography, confronted by a baffling range of contradictory views. Was Caesar an opportunist, a permanently bankrupt businessman who became too big for the banks to allow him to fail – as his former banker claims? Did he stumble into power while trying to make money, as suggested by the diary of his former slave? Across these different versions of Caesar's career in the political and economic life of Rome, Brecht wryly contrasts the narratives of imperial progress with the reality of grasping self-interest, in a sly allegory that points to the Weimar Republic and perhaps even to our own times. Brecht reminds his readers of the need for constant vigilance and critical suspicion towards the great figures of the past. In an echo of his dramatic theories, the audience is confronted with its own task of active interpretation rather than passive acceptance -- we have to work out our own views about Mr Julius Caesar. This edition is translated by Charles Osborne and features an introduction and editorial notes by Anthony Phelan and Tom Kuhn.
Author: Publisher: Dumont ISBN: 9783832193225 Category : Electric automobiles Languages : de Pages : 0
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At the age of only 24, Ferdinand Porsche caused a sensation at the 1900 Exposition Universelle in Paris: he presented an electric automobile there, the so-called Lohner-Porsche that would make history with its innovative wheel hub motor. That same year, Ferdinand Porsche combined a petrol engine with an electric drive and the hybrid automobile was born. This book presents a comprehensive look at this fascinating period in automotive history featuring numerous pictures and documents from the historical archive of Porsche AG. Published as part of the Edition Porsche Museum series. English and German text.
Author: Joseph Amato Publisher: NYU Press ISBN: 0814705022 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 341
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In this lively social history, Amato, author of "Dust," tells the large-scale and small-scale stories of what was man's first mode of travel--walking.
Author: David W. Anthony Publisher: Princeton University Press ISBN: 1400831105 Category : Social Science Languages : en Pages : 566
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Roughly half the world's population speaks languages derived from a shared linguistic source known as Proto-Indo-European. But who were the early speakers of this ancient mother tongue, and how did they manage to spread it around the globe? Until now their identity has remained a tantalizing mystery to linguists, archaeologists, and even Nazis seeking the roots of the Aryan race. The Horse, the Wheel, and Language lifts the veil that has long shrouded these original Indo-European speakers, and reveals how their domestication of horses and use of the wheel spread language and transformed civilization. Linking prehistoric archaeological remains with the development of language, David Anthony identifies the prehistoric peoples of central Eurasia's steppe grasslands as the original speakers of Proto-Indo-European, and shows how their innovative use of the ox wagon, horseback riding, and the warrior's chariot turned the Eurasian steppes into a thriving transcontinental corridor of communication, commerce, and cultural exchange. He explains how they spread their traditions and gave rise to important advances in copper mining, warfare, and patron-client political institutions, thereby ushering in an era of vibrant social change. Anthony also describes his fascinating discovery of how the wear from bits on ancient horse teeth reveals the origins of horseback riding. The Horse, the Wheel, and Language solves a puzzle that has vexed scholars for two centuries--the source of the Indo-European languages and English--and recovers a magnificent and influential civilization from the past.
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