by Jim Supica and Richard Nahas (2001)
"From Schofield Revolvers to M&P AR-15s, for more than 150 years Smith & Wesson has turned out some of the world’s most desirable firearms. Gun Digest is ready to arm shooters with the tools they need to know, appreciate and add more of the iconic guns to their collections. The newly updated Standard Catalog of Smith & Wesson 4th Edition is the industry’s most comprehensive guide to the well-respected manufacturer’s firearms. At the heart of the reference are price listings for nearly 800 models of Smith & Wesson, covering its revolvers, semi-auto pistols, shotguns, rifles, military arms and other collectibles. Author Jim Supica and Richard Nahas have turned to the most trusted sources in the industry to provide the most current and accurate values for each model across 6 condition grades. This is the sort of market advantage that nets collectors the guns of their dreams, while keeping more of their hard-earned cash in their pockets. And with 144 new pages added since the last edition, the book covers even more Smith & Wesson models than ever before. The Standard Catalog of Smith & Wesson 4th Edition is more than a price guide. It is also an unparalleled identification reference. The volume brims with more than 300 detailed, full-color photographs, making figuring out which firearm is which a snap. The images are enhanced by Supica and Nahas’ comprehensive written descriptions, which include vital information about variations to each model, as well as a concise history of the firearm at hand."--Publisher's description.
Thomas Kent Edlund
The National Socialist government of Germany, in May of 1939, conducted a census of the nation's "non-Teutonic" peoples. Plans for this undertaking stemmed from a 1936 decision intended to identify those "ethnic subversives" who threatened Hitler's fascist state. Authority for this activity was vested with the Reichssippenamt, an historically respectable government department dating from Bismarckian times.
Siegbert Wolf
Als Literaturkritiker, Übersetzer, Roman- und Novellenautor, Vortragsredner und Essayist, als nichtmarxistischer libertärer Sozialist und jüdischer Kulturphilosoph genoss Gustav Landauer (1870–1919) hohes Ansehen. Er agierte als Sprach- und Kulturkritiker, sowie Initiator zahlreicher Projekte. Was Gustav Landauer vor allem antrieb, betraf die Suche nach einer menschlichen Gemeinschaft freier und gleichberechtigter Menschen in einer dezentralen und föderal vernetzten Welt. Ob in seiner umfassenden Rezeption der Dramen William Shakesspeares sowie der Französischen Revolution von 1789 oder in seinen zahlreichen Vorträgen (deutsche und internationale Literaturgeschichte, Regeneration des Judentums, Antimilitarismus) – stets wird seine Sehnsucht nach einem selbstbestimmten Miteinander deutlich. Landauers noch heute lesenswerte Bücher und Essays vermitteln das sozialgeschichtliche Panorama einer bewegten Zeit am Ausgang des 19. Jahrhunderts und in den ersten beiden Jahrzehnten des 20. Jahrhunderts. Seine Wirkung motivierte so unterschiedliche Zeitgenossen wie Martin Buber, Erich Mühsam, Margarete Susman, Walter Benjamin, Ernst Bloch, Georg Kaiser und Ernst Toller. (Quelle: Edition AV)
Christopher Wicking and Tise Vahimagi
**The American Vein** is a pioneering reference book on film in television. It is the first comprehensive work to consider films that have been made especially for the small screen, either as TV movies or as series segments. It classifies them under the names of the people who created them. The main body of the book lists over 280 directors who have made films for television; they are grouped to indicate their importance, their fame, and their achievement. Each entry lists a director's television work, giving the title of the film or series, plus the name of the segment and its date of production. This is followed by an incisive and often provocative assessment of the work of the director, which indicates its particular flavor. **The American Vein** also contains a chronological history of American television from 1948 and a section which lists the main television series, along with the names of the most important directors who have helped make them successful.
John A. Lane
"The Plantin-Moretus Museum has one of the world's richest collections of type specimens, many surviving nowhere else. They include types by Garamont, Granjon, Van den Keere, Briot, Van Dyck, Kis, Fournier, Rosart, Gille, Didot and many other masters from the fifteenth to the nineteenth century. Since the Plantin-Moretus printing office acquired most of the specimens when new, moreover, the collection as a whole tells a story in a way that collections assembled piecemeal in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries cannot. Finally, the Museum's archives help to document the origins of many specimens." "This first detailed catalogue of the Museum's specimens reports the styles and sizes of type shown, describes the structures and paper stocks, notes relations with other specimens in the collection and elsewhere, and provides references to literature on many of the individual types shown." "Preliminary notes on the type founders and printers who issued the specimens include chronologies of the foundries and information on the origins of their materials, sometimes supplemented with information about the history of the firms and the genealogy of the founders. Nearly all of the nineteen specimens illustrated at their original size appear here for the first time, and extensive indexes make this book a powerful reference tool for type specimen enthusiast and printing historians."--BOOK JACKET.