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When Germany was defeated in 1945 both the Russians & the Americans undertook mass internments in the territories they occupied The Americans called their approach automatic arrest Carl Schmitt although not belonging in the circles subject to automatic arrest was held in one of these camps in the years 1945 6 & then in March 1947 in the prison of the international tribunal in Nuremberg as witness & possible defendant A formal charge was never brought against him Schmitt s way of coping throughout the years of isolation was to write this book In Ex Captivitate Salus or Deliverance from Captivity Schmitt considers a range of issues relating to history & political theory as well as recent events including the Nazi defeat & the newly emerging Cold War Schmitt often urged his readers to view the book as though it were a series of letters personally directed to each one of them Hence there is a decidedly personal dimension to the text as Schmitt expresses his thoughts on his own career trajectory with some pathos while at the same time emphasising that this is not romantic or heroic prison literature This reflective work sheds new light on Schmitt s thought & personal situation at the beginning of a period of exile from public life that only ended with his death in 1985 It will be of great value to the many students & scholars in political theory & law who continue to study & appreciate this seminal theorist of the twentieth century ...
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In Ex Libris you are a collector of rare & valuable books in a thriving gnomish village Recently the Mayor & Village Council have announced an opening for a Grand Librarian a prestigious (and lucrative) position they intend to award to the most qualified villager! Unfortunately several of your book collector colleagues (more like acquaintances really) are also candidates To outshine your competition you need to expand your personal library by sending your trusty assistants out into the village to find the most impressive tomes Sources for the finest books are scarce so you need to beat your opponents to them when they pop up You have only a week before the Mayor&s Official Inspector comes to judge your library so be sure your assistants have all your books shelved! The Inspector is a tough cookie & will use her Official Checklist to grade your library on several criteria including shelf stability alphabetical order & variety
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Ex Libris: Confessions Of A Common Reader Paperback

Anne Fadiman is the sort of person who learned about sex from her father&s copy of Fanny Hill and who once found herself poring over a 1974 Toyota Corolla manual because it was the only thing in her apartment that she had not read at least twice EX LIBRIS wittily recounts a lifelong obsession with books Writing with humour and erudition she moves easily from anecdotes about Coleridge and Orwell to tales of her own pathologically literary family &One of the most delightful volumes to have come across my desk in a long whilewitty enchanting and supremely well-written& -- Robert McCrum Observer
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Anne Fadiman is the sort of person who learned about sex from her father&s copy of Fanny Hill & who once found herself poring over a 1974 Toyota Corolla manual because it was the only thing in her apartment that she had not read at least twice EX LIBRIS wittily recounts a lifelong obsession with books Writing with humour & erudition she moves easily from anecdotes about Coleridge & Orwell to tales of her own pathologically literary family & One of the most delightful volumes to have come across my desk in a long whilewitty enchanting & supremely well-written& -- Robert Mc Crum Observer

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