This concise examination of the Weimar Republic synthesizes the key debates and scholarship in the field for a student audience. Providing extensive coverage of the increasingly prominent topics of gender, sexuality and popular culture, Christopher Dillon offers an up-to-date account of the Republic that moves beyond a Berlin-centric approach to a more holistic presentation of Germany during the period. The text is also rich with pedagogical features, including key terms text boxes, a glos...

Whether you're buying a family home, a ski chalet or an investment property, Landed Japan will save you time, money and headaches.In the expanded and updated second edition of Landed Japan you'll find:* Step-by-step instructions for buying new and pre-owned real estate* Case studies about building and buying new homes and purchasing repossessed, income and recreational properties* Introductions to the real estate markets in Hokkaido, Greater Tokyo, Nagoya, Kans...

Landed Hong Kong gives you the key facts and insights you need to successfully buy property in Hong Kong.  In Landed Hong Kong, you’ll find: Step-by-step guides to buying new and pre-owned homes Detailed case studies about residential, commercial and industrial property Information about buying a house in the New Territories, including local laws and politics Practical guidance on planning and exec...

Dachau and the SS studies the concentration camp guards at Dachau, the first SS concentration camp and a national 'school' of violence for its concentration camp personnel. Set up in the first months of Adolf Hitler's rule, Dachau was a bastion of the Nazi 'revolution' and a key springboard for the ascent of Heinrich Himmler and the SS to control of the Third Reich's terror and policing apparatus. Throughout the pre-war era of Nazi Germany, Dachau functioned as an academy of viole...

Landed Global gives you the key facts and insights you need to successfully buy property across international borders.In Landed Global you'll find:Examples and data from more than 110 countries and territoriesCase studies about cross-border home purchases--ranging from US$50,000 to $10 million--in France, Ireland, Japan, Sri Lanka, Thailand and the United StatesResources to help y...

Now available in a single, abridged paperback, Ian Kershaw's Hitler is the definitive biography of the Nazi leader.Ian Kershaw's two volume biography, Hitler 1889-1936: Hubris and Hitler 1936-1945: Nemesis, was greeted with universal acclaim as the essential work on one of the most malign figures in history, from his earliest origins to the final days of the Second World War.Now this landmark historical work is available in one si...

The aim of this book is to provide a practical guide for businessmen, students of banking and those concerned with letters of credit transactions and financing in international trade. Presented in a concise and easy-to-read manner, this book will teach you how to comply with the complex rules and requirements of letters of credit under The Uniform Customs and Practice for Documentary Credits (UCP 600). It explains and highlights the rules that importers and exporters need to know to avoid ...

From the million-copy-selling author of A Random Walk Down Wall Street, the perfect guide to investing in the next economic giant.In From Wall Street to the Great Wall, Burton G. Malkiel and his coauthors show how average investors can tap into the opportunities this affords without losing their shirts. The authors present firsthand knowledge from their research trips to China on how Chinese firms and industries, as well as multinationals in the U...

"The Beautiful Beast" documents in meticulous detail the extraordinary and frightening biography of Irma Grese. Born in a tiny farming community fifty miles north of Berlin, she became the ultimate feminine representative of the Hitlerian vision of the warrior-youth;indeed, with her blonde hair and strikingly blue eyes, Grese embodied all the physical characteristics of the idealized Nazi youth! Once Irma Grese was old enough to secure a training spot in the newly-created corps of female S...

It is an ebook which explains how a foreigner can come to Mauritius to live, work, retire, do business and buy property. There are hyperlinks which take the reader to relevant guidelines and application forms.

KOREA FOCUS is a monthly webzine and a quarterly journal, featuring commentaries and essays on Korean politics, economy, society and culture, as well as relevant international issues. The articles are selected from leading Korean newspapers, magazines, journals and academic papers from prestigious forums.

“A remarkable—and singularly chilling—glimpse of human behavior. . .This meticulously researched book...represents a major contribution to the literature of the Holocaust."—NewsweekChristopher R. Browning’s shocking account of how a unit of average middle-aged Germans became the cold-blooded murderers of tens of thousands of Jews—now with a new afterword and additional photographs.Ordinary Men is the true story of Reserve Police Ba...