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Matando al Sol Naciente: Cómo Estados Unidos venció a Japón en la Segunda Guerra Mundial, por Bill O'Reilly – Libro resumen – Readtrepreneur (Disclaimer: Este NO es el libro original, sino un resumen no oficial.) La exitosa serie Killing de Bill O'Reilly lanza un título que cubre uno de los conflictos más sangrientos de la historia. Matando el Sol Naciente cubre el último año de la Segunda Guerra Mundial donde los Estados Unidos y Japón no están dispuestos a rendirse. Entrando directamente en...
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A lo largo de la historia humana, 6 bebidas hicieron mucho más que calmar la sed. Contaban la historia de la humanidad desde la Edad de Piedra hasta el siglo XXI. Una historia del Mundo en 6 tragos es un libro único que cuenta la historia del ser humano a través del lente de 6 bebidas. Una historia del mundo en 6 tragos por Tom Standage Resumen del libro Readtrepreneur (Descargo de responsabilidad: este NO es el libro original sino un resumen no oficial). A lo largo de la historia humana, 6...
| Автор | Readtrepreneur Publishing |
La extraña muerte de Europa por Douglas Murray – Resumen del libro – Readtrepreneur (Descargo de responsabilidad: Este NO es el libro original, sino un resumen no oficial.) ¿Qué pasó con Europa? La disminución de las tasas de natalidad, la inmigración masiva y todas esas cosas negativas que están sucediendo. ¿Qué está pasando realmente? La Extraña Muerte de Europa se cuenta desde una perspectiva de primera mano de lo que realmente está sucediendo con una amplia investigación y evidencia. En este...
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As a parent, you want the best for your child, and one of your greatest hopes is that your child will grow up to be a good person. So, what makes a good person? Generally, we think about good people as being kind: compassionate, empathetic, generous. However, it seems that, in our fast-paced, individual-driven society, kindness is fading and the pressure on parents to raise socially conscious, empathetic, and caring children can seem overwhelming at times. In Teaching Kids to Be Kind, Rachel...
| Автор | Ксюша Ангел |
Minevikust kõneldes kipume tihtipeale unustama, et see on olevikust väga erinev, kusjuures ajalooline mälu osutub mõnikord uskumatult ebatäpseks. Euroopa minevikust mõeldes meenuvad enamasti just tänapäevalgi eksisteerivate riikide ajalood: Prantsusmaa, Saksamaa, Suurbritannia, Venemaa jne. Tegelik ajalugu on aga tunduvalt keerulisem ja paljusid riike mäletavad tänapäeval väga vähesed. Selle raamatu vahendusel tutvume aegade hämaruses suuri tegusid teinud riikide ja nende valitsejatega (näiteks...
| Автор | Norman Davies |
Kresy – magiczne słowo dla Polaków, synonim krainy utraconej na zawsze. A dla wielu rodzinnych stron, które na zawsze zapisały się w dziejach i kulturze naszego kraju. Niniejsza książka to nostalgiczna podróż po polskich śladach na Ukrainie. Autor koncentruje się na śladach polskości, pozostałościach naszej kultury, które na zawsze pozostały na wschód od Bugu. Nie unika trudnych tematów, takich jak stosunki polsko-ukraińskie z rzezią wołyńską czy powstaniem Chmielnickiego na czele, ale zachowuje...
| Автор | Sławomir Koper |
What is democracy and where did it come from? Is it a new development or was it always present in human society? And perhaps the most important question: what can we do to preserve and strengthen democracy among the forces that oppose it? In this book we explore trends throughout history that have brought democratic – and undemocratic – government to people wherever civilization exists. We discuss where democracy has been most, and least, successful and why. But our most important task is to...
| Автор | Steve Zolno |
In Man and Mission: E. B. Gaston and the Origins of the Fairhope Single Tax Colony, historian Paul Gaston relates his grandfather's 1864 founding of the utopian community of Fairhope, Alabama. The twenty-eight “Fairhopers” hoped to realize an “equality of opportunity, the full reward of individual efforts, and the benefits of co-operation in matters of general concern,” at a time when the economic system of the United State was ravaged by monopoly capitalism. Using family and public...
| Автор | Paul M. Gaston |
In 1932, the U.S. Public Health Service recruited 623 African American men from Macon County, Alabama, for a study of “the effects of untreated syphilis in the Negro male.” For the next 40 years—even after the development of penicillin, the cure for syphilis—these men were denied medical care for this potentially fatal disease. The Tuskegee Syphilis Study was exposed in 1972, and in 1975 the government settled a lawsuit but stopped short of admitting wrongdoing. In 1997, President Bill Clinton...
| Автор | Fred Gray |
Winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature and Winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award A journalist by trade, who now suffers from an immune deficiency developed while researching this book, presents personal accounts of what happened to the people of Belarus after the nuclear reactor accident in 1986, and the fear, anger, and uncertainty that they still live with. The Nobel Prize in Literature 2015 was awarded to Svetlana Alexievich «for her polyphonic writings, a monument to suffering...
| Автор | Светлана Алексиевич |
"America's most interesting and important essayist." — Eric Kandel , Nobel Prize–winning author of The Age of Insight "[Gerald Weissmann] bridges the space between science and the humanities, and particularly between medicine and the muses, with wit, erudition, and, most important, wisdom." — Adam Gopnik In this diverting collection of essays, Gerald Weissmann looks back on decades of a career spent working at the intersection of the arts and sciences. The Fevers of Reason ...
| Автор | Gerald Weissmann |
<P>Best known for Neon Vernacular, which won the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry in 1994, and for Dien Cai Dau, a collection of poems chronicling his experiences as a journalist in Vietnam, Yusef Komunyakaa has become one of America's most compelling poets. Pleasure Dome gathers the poems in these two distinguished books and five others—over two and a half decades of Komunyakaa's work. In addition, Pleasure Dome includes 25 early, uncollected poems and a rich selection of 18...
| Автор | Yusef Komunyakaa |
More than 9 million Germans died as a result of deliberate Allied starvation and expulsion policies after World War II—one quarter of the country was annexed, and about 15 million people expelled in the largest act of ethnic cleansing the world has ever known. Over 2 million of these alone, including countless children, died on the road or in concentration camps in Poland and elsewhere. That these deaths occurred at all is still being denied by Western governments.At the same time,...
| Автор | James Bacque |
Противостояние Запада и Востока уходит своими корнями в эпоху античности. Противоборство этих двух начал было культурным, политическим, а нередко и военным: либо Восток шел покорять Запад, либо Запад отправлялся завоевывать Восток. Крестовые походы стали одним из важнейших шагов на пути становления могущества западной цивилизации. Они овеяны легендами. Что принесли они Европе и Азии? Какими были и к чему стремились их участники? Кровопролитные священные завоевания ознаменовали зарю восхода...
| Автор | Андрей Домановский |
Early civilizations, Native Americans, the English colonies, slavery, the American Revolution, the Declaration of Independence, and the Bill of Rights begin the journey and lay the foundation for the United States of today. The Handy American History Answer Book takes a walk through the economic, political, and social forces, as well as the military conflicts that created, changed, and built the United States. It explains the impact of the biggest events, the wars, the presidents, lesser-known...
| Автор | David L. Hudson |
Islands have been at the heart of our desires, and our fears, forever. *Island* tells the groundbreaking story of humans and islands, and islands and nature, from the beginning of time to the present. Drawing on history, literature, art, anthropology, biology, and earth science, *Island* explores the human settlement of islands—including the seafaring skills required to cross the seas—and describes in vivid detail the spectacular flora and fauna of islands as well as their...
| Автор | J. Edward Chamberlin |
Can a culture have a theme that unifies seemingly unrelated practices? In this volume, Collins suggests that Maya-Mam customs as different as constructing a house, staying healthy, seeking God, disciplining children, agreeing to a contract, or just speaking the language, all originate from the same concept- a search for the center. This is far more than mere balance, long recognized as a Mayan cultural value. Rather, center space is a place of physical and metaphysical peace, acceptance,...
| Автор | Wesley M. Collins |
The stories and legends of the Lushootseed-speaking people of Puget Sound represent an important part of the oral tradition by which one generation hands down beliefs, values, and customs to another. Vi Hilbert grew up when many of the old social patterns survived and everyone spoke the ancestral language.Habo o, Hi lbert’s collection of thirty-three stories, features tales mostly set in the Myth Age, before the world transformed. Animals, plants, trees, and even rocks had human...
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This explosive new book challenges many of the long-prevailing assumptions about blacks, about Jews, about Germans, about slavery, and about education. Plainly written, powerfully reasoned, and backed with a startling array of documented facts, Black Rednecks and White Liberals takes on not only the trendy intellectuals of our times but also such historic interpreters of American life as Alexis de Tocqueville and Frederick Law Olmsted. In a series of long essays, this book presents an in-depth...
| Автор | Thomas Sowell |
The Norsk Høstfest: A Celebration of Ethnic Food and Ethnic Identity Paul Thomas Emch SIL International* and the International Museum of Cultures Publications in Ethnography 41 What does it mean to be Norwegian-American? This study, of interest to laymen and scholars alike, answers this question by examining the prominent traditions and functions of food at the annual Norsk Hostfest celebration held in Minot, North Dakota. In this book, the author uses anthropological methodology to demonstrate...
| Автор | Paul Thomas Emch |
<P>The Einstein Intersection won the Nebula Award for best science fiction novel of 1967. The surface story tells of the problems a member of an alien race, Lo Lobey, has assimilating the mythology of earth, where his kind have settled among the leftover artifacts of humanity. The deeper tale concerns, however, the way those who are «different» must deal with the dominant cultural ideology. The tale follows Lobey's mythic quest for his lost love, Friza. In luminous and...
| Автор | Samuel R. Delany |
<P><B>Winner of the Harper Lee Award (2018)</B></P><P>In her three previous, award-winning collections of blues poetry, Honor&#233;e Fanonne Jeffers has explored themes of African American history, Southern culture, and intergenerational trauma. Now, in her fourth and most accomplished collection, Jeffers turns to the task of seeking and reconciling the blues and its three movements—identification, exploration, and...
| Автор | Honorée Fanonne Jeffers |
<P>Solkattu, the spoken rhythms and patterns of hand-clapping used by all musicians and dancers in the classical traditions of South India, is a subject of worldwide interest—but until now there has not been a textbook for students new to the practice. Designed especially for classroom use in a Western setting, the manual begins with rudimentary lessons in the simplest South Indian tala, or metric cycle, and proceeds step-by-step into more challenging material. The book then...
| Автор | David P. Nelson |
Winner of the 2013 Modern Language Association's William Sanders Scarborough Prize for Outstanding Scholarly Study of Black American Literature In this comparative study of contemporary Black Atlantic women writers, Samantha Pinto demonstrates the crucial role of aesthetics in defining the relationship between race, gender, and location. Thinking beyond national identity to include African, African American, Afro-Caribbean, and Black British literature, Difficult Diasporas brings together...
| Автор | Samantha Pinto |