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...Mighty Fortress: A New History of the German People, Ozment harnesses over 2000 years of German history in less than 350 pages. Friendly, thorough and wholly comprehensive, the book is an enlightening way to learn about the fascinating and controversial Germans...
...Ozment, that dual history is a part of his own story. Like 58 million other Americans, Ozment can claim a German-American heritage. After his mother’s family immigrated to the United States, they dropped the end of their last name, disconnecting themselves with their German history...
...roughly $450 for three days of training and about $150 for flights thereafter. The prices include the rental of a glider and protective gear as well as instructors' guidance from the ground. To learn more about paragliding, visit the website of the Swiss paragliding association, www.shv-net.ch (in French and German), or its British counterpart at www.bhpa.co.uk. You can also find contact details for certified venues and instructors from the local tourist board in practically any alpine town...
Timing is everything. In the spring of 2003, Niall Ferguson was known among historians as an astonishingly prolific scholar who had published important books on the German hyperinflation of the 1920s, the House of Rothschild and World War I, and was the impresario of a school of "counterfactual" writers who took seriously the amateur historian's favorite question: What would have happened...
...people who would rather chew glass than read his lumbering prose. But it is the awesome yet careful architecture of Jurgen Habermas' lifetime of scholarship that undergirds his reputation as an independent commentator on most of the ills of the contemporary world. Reason, for this 74-year-old German philosopher-sociologist, is practical, and reason is rooted in the ability to communicate clearly with one another. When people of different cultures come together to speak and listen on an equal footing, they can--and must--formulate a consensus. Constitutions help. So does the law. On such grounds, Habermas...