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This book is an eclectic collection of short stories, thirteen in all. The reader can find a wide range of evocative emotions while moving from story to story. Each of the stories is a snippet of human experience ranging from sad to hilarious and to deeply moving. The author spends time in slapstick humor, philosophical musings, and observations of the human condition. Each story has its own mood and course. There is no particular direction to this anthology of short stories, because each story has its own character. The author has encapsulated many angles on the view of life. The book is a short read but one which will pull the reader through each story with curiosity for what the next story might offer. There are rewards in finishing each.
Mud and Snow: Into Russia and Back is an artfully woven novel by Marc Hetzel. Hetzel's gripping novel is based on true life events and follows the life of a World War II veteran. Walter Hetzel, a butcher's son is thrust into war when he's a young man. Walter leaves his boyhood home in Chemnitz and trains for active duty in Krakow, Poland. Walter's tour of duty takes him to the Russian front where he's captured near Vitebsk and then sent to Moscow. While there, Walter makes friends with the other prisoners but learns the devastation of war up close and personal. Walter spends several years as a POW; and after returning home finds his home forever changed-as he is. Hetzel writes with incredible clarity, expertly capturing the mood, setting, and inner-workings of a young man losing his innocence while being exposed to horrific events and situations. Based on true-life events, his novel will haunt your conscience long after you've turned the last page. Marc Hetzel is a writer and works in the poker industry.
Anne Lafarre combines wide ranging empirical legal and economic research to analyse and understand the real role of the AGM in the European businesses and corporate governance frameworks today.
"A brilliant attempt to explain the profound historical crisis into which medicine had plummeted during the Nazi period with the tried methods of social history.--Historische Zeitschrift "The author has drawn from an extraordinary range of sources, and the weight of evidence he compiles will certainly give pause to anyone who still wants to believe that professionals kept their hands clean in this era of great and methodical crimes.--Journal of Modern History "Kater's important book deserves close attention from historians of medicine and German historians alike.--Isis In this history of medicine and the medical profession in the Third Reich, Michael Kater examines the career patterns, educational training, professional organization, and political socialization of German physicians under Hitler. His discussion ranges widely, from doctors who participated in Nazi atrocities, to those who actively resisted the regime's perversion of healing, to the vast majority whose ideology and behavior fell somewhere between the two extremes. He also takes a chilling look at the post-Hitler medical establishment's problematic relationship to the Nazi past. -->
What makes good fortune "good"? Norman Reinhardt is certain that amassing large amounts of money is good, maybe even "better" and "best." He launches a frenzied search for a sizeable fortune that is willed to his wife by her rich uncle. In his quest Norman discovers an outrageous, then confusing, then challenging concept that all of his life is a good gift, and the gracious Giver is inviting him to a journey of scandalous generosity. Norman soon finds himself in a world of bewildering ambiguities and seeks not only for his good fortune but also for what will make his fortune "good."